Tag: sustainable farming
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Cover Crops Need Loving Too
Our cover crops in the big fields did not get a good start this year due to the dryness of the early summer. So there is a bit too much grass in there for my liking. Nature abhors a vacuum so where the red clover did not take off; a ditch grass grew. And in…
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Old Posts Never Lie
Not blog posts you understand. Though it is true that my blog posts do never lie. Fence posts! Scroll past the wheat and the asparagus! Fence Post Failure I just realized yesterday that FreeBee and Jude have been using this post ( below and in the header) as a scratching post. While watching Free Bee…
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Playing Snakes and Ladders: the real kind.
I don’t want to scare any of the people who are scared of snakes. So below is a nice benign image to begin. Though – The Fellowship is a pretty tough bunch after all these years. Quacker came shrieking over for some dinner yesterday evening. Still no sign of chicks. And it was while she…
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“Cycles: The Key to Environmental Harmony.”
How many of the patterns in your life are strongly circular and how many have you have been able to close. Here is a simple one. Our clothing is worn for as long as possible then it is cut up for rags then once those are worn through this thin worn out fabric goes in…
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The Re-Wilding of a Farm Field
We have a lot of wild areas out here in this corner of the prairie. I used to call them my faerie gardens but really they are just wild and out of control. I have no time for formal gardens that I cannot eat. I guess I garden with trees. Re-wilding is a way to…
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