Posts Tagged ‘regenerative farming’
Workin’ in a Winter Wonderland
With most of our animals living comfortably in the barn these past weeks, we are enjoying a lighter work load. The garden, too, is at rest. We planted the last of the garlic just before Christmas, then covered those beds plus the remaining winter carrot beds and the fava beans with a thick blanket of…
Read MoreHigh and dry
With all the rain these days, we have been grateful for our sturdy barn. We’re giving our pastures a break during these heavy, wet rains. We’ve generally used our high tunnels for livestock during the winter. This year we had late squash and tomatoes still growing as the rains descended on us, and decided to…
Read MoreSweet!
As we move into fall our vegetables are putting everything they’ve got into making sure they can produce good seed to keep their DNA viable. The result? Extra sweetness and lots of volume. A case in point would be this Swiss chard we sold at the Wednesday Night Street Market last week. Or the Daikon…
Read MoreDon’t count your chickens
Do you remember the beautiful chicks that we incubated in April? Well, now they have become the young hens and roosters you see below. They are growing well, and enjoying a safe and happy, though perhaps boring, life in the barn. The hens will begin laying eggs in a couple more months. Unfortunately, that isn’t…
Read MoreIt’s piglet time!
Morning sunshine makes for tender moments. And many piglets make for playful activity! One more mama to go! How many babies to you think this sow is carrying?
Read MoreMulching for moisture
We are counting on straw this year as the answer to maintaining moisture and suppressing weeds. This morning I hopped out of bed at 4:30, highly motivated to cover our newly seeded beet, carrot, Hakurei turnip, pea, and arugula garden beds with a thick layer of straw. It was such a beautiful morning! Cool and…
Read MoreAn evening stroll
Yesterday Jacob and I were quite surprised as we arrived back home at twilight. Right in the driveway near the house was one of our sows busily grazing the edges of the driveway with a little mob of piglets all around her. She had busted through her pen in the hoophouse and made her way…
Read MoreHelpers
I’ll bet you wish you had helpers like these to mow your yard and improve your grasses! With the mix of sunshine and rain that we have been enjoying this month, the grasses in our pastures are shoulder high. We are grateful when we can count on our animals to eat it down. Here at…
Read MoreAbundance
Last night the 48 chicks in our incubator started hatching. By morning we had about 30, and by early afternoon 40 had hatched! I am very pleased. As you can see, the diversity of chicks from our hens is strong, and they are very healthy and content. While I was tending the chicks this morning,…
Read MoreNeighbors inspiring neighbors – Rosalie Kaune
We hope with this recognition to mark the anniversary of each month of the pandemic by highlighting a member of our local farm community whose sense of community and agri-culture and sustainability can point the way for all of us and reawaken our own commitments. We want to keep fresh the experiences of the early pandemic reality,…
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