Farm Journal
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Monday, July 26, 2021
I woke up this morning to discover it rained a whole quarter inch last night, on top of a tenth of an inch yesterday. The smell of the rain saturated ground (petrichor, if you will) is absolutely glo…
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Monday, July 19, 2021
While the eternal struggle against squirrels and rabbits continues, the harvest has begun to trickle in. Somehow we’ve ended up with far too many squash plants again, and the wave is beginning to gro…
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Monday, July 12, 2021
The projects continue, and it’s still damn hot. The Garden All the squash I planted outside the garden except one has been eaten at this point, even with cages around them. I’ve also discovered evide…
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Monday, June 28, 2021
It’s been a hot couple of weeks in the mountains. Most of the garden is enjoying the weather -- some of our corn is waist high, and the potatoes are flowering. I spent quite a bit of time trellising …
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Monday, June 7, 2021
Squash and teparies in the meadow have sprouted finally, and I’m hoping the squirrels don’t destroy them too soon. The damn squirrels have already gotten into the meadow garden and tunneled under som…
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This week has consisted of mainly boring tasks that needed to get done. I’ve worked a lot on irrigation, hooking up the garden border so we can grow flowers along the edge, getting the cherries in th…
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Monday, May 10, 2021
Last week we worked at breakneck speed to get the garden ready to plant this week. I continued adding to the fence and ran irrigation from the well house all the way down the hill. I ended up using 3…
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Monday, May 3, 2021
I slow cooked a goat loin and a couple legs for tacos this weekend to ring in my 30th, which turned out great. Cracked open one of the elderberry prickly pear blends for the party too, which turned o…
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Friday, April 23, 2021
It teased at raining yesterday, as a layer of mist settled on Wednesday and didn’t let up until this morning. Unfortunately we only got around a tenth of an inch. I’ve continued plugging away at the …
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Monday, April 19, 2021
I’m tired and beat up, but progress on the meadow garden continues. My friend David came up on Friday and we built the pergola slash entryway to the garden. It turned out well -- in an ideal world we…
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We talked to our neighbor about building a garden in our shared meadow yesterday, and she seems amenable to us approaching where we think the property line is, but not getting too near it. It will ma…
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Monday, April 5, 2021
It’s amazing how much time everything takes. Seems like every day I set out to do eight things and end up getting two of them plus half of another done. That’s how this weekend felt -- the clock is t…
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Thursday, April 1, 2021
It’s officially been a year since we moved out here. I’ve acquired more useful knowledge this year than in any other year of my life, much of it has come the hard way, and I’m grateful to this piece …
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Yesterday was Bernie’s birthday, so we went for a hike with dogs at William Heise. Not sure on ID, but this was all over. Looks kind of sagey but not that aromatic.Not sure on ID, but this was all ov…
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Spent the afternoon making soil blocks and starting seeds for our cukes and tomatoes and and friends. It still takes quite a bit of time, so I can see why this isn’t more common commercially. They ar…
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Saturday, March 20, 2021
On Friday I got serious about making soil blocks. I decided it wasn’t worth the time to start seeds in 3/4” blocks and transplant them, so I’ve gone straight to the 2” blocks. I think I figured out t…
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It was cold and rained slush today — every time I tried to go outside and get to work pruning hail pelted me. So not much got done yesterday. Finished pruning the big overgrown pluot out front — we r…
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