We have worked on the chicken (duck) tractor a little but not to much because of the heat. We are almost done with it though. The smaller egg is the new chicken egg, and the larger one is a duck egg. Last week I started with the garden so today I’ll start with the animals....
Farmers market trailer– born in the 60’s as a pop-up camper, transformed into an ice-fishing shack, and then put up for free adoption on Craigslist- where we found it and brought it home to become our farmers’ market trailer, used to store & haul the canopy, tables, chairs, and ...
I have fed square bales for five years. We started with just 20 acres and a Ford 8N. I didn’t have the money to buy a bigger tractor, so starting with square bales made sense. Per pound of hay you can also make more money selling square bales, but it does require more work. It...
It may seem for a moment that I am changing the subject if I start to talk about Craigslist, which deserves a post in itself as a helpful tool for finding and getting rid of things. At any rate, I find myself checking the farm and garden category of Craigslist a couple of times a ...
Quest for Fire: A Rocket Mass Heater for the Greenhouse Craigslist Free Stuff Farm Operation Root Cellar the Rust Shack creating an Earth Oven serendipitous storage solution synchronicities Two Farm Weeks in September Winter WWOOFingRecent Comments Tia on Quest for Fire: A Rocket Mass Heater for ...
The structure above, to the left, is the newest glasshouse and one of my favorites. It’s the Davies Apline House, a rock garden full of all sorts of tiny little plants—most of them seeming Mediterranean in origin. I love how these small plants are basically served up on rocky platters...
Neighbor Dave teaching Kristin how to dig a root cellar hole with his tractor we’ve been keeping ahead of the potato beetle larva onslaught by seeking and destroying their eggs adorable baby potato plant we find some cool relics buried on the farm … ...