Category: Farming
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Weeding in Bare Feet
If you are a gardener you are a weeder. A watcher of weeds. We endlessly plot how to have weed free gardens and fields. A weed is a plant in the wrong place and there are thousands of plants in the wrong place in my pig garden. Velvet weed or Buttonweed is an invasive species.…
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Off to Chicago for the day
After a day and a night of rain. Seven inches of rain all told. pouring. Tropical warm rain.. after 24 hours of it, I think the weather is easing. At midnight I got up and rearranged the cows so the grown ups and the white calf could come inside too. Now it is early morning.…
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Did you see that snake?
It crawled right across the hay feeder above the cows and then into the loft. I think knitting was Friday? Was it Friday? Having Fourth of July holiday on a Thursday upset my brain. Here he is. It may be a she. This is a Fox Snake. And now it is in the loft –…
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Sad Seed Germination
It looked like rain would come in the night and it smelt like rain this morning but no rain came so today will be a watering day. With hoses. But I can’t water the pig garden. It is too big. Probably a third of an acre. And. Miserably it looks like our flowering pigs field…
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An overview
Another noisy night but by morning the wind is down and the clouds seem settled. And listening to a storm is better for a body than reading the news – I know that! The farm is green and fertile and growing like mad. HERE IS a short 10 minute walk about the FARM. We walk…
The Kitchen's Garden 