Tag: sustainable farming
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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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Sexist Farming
No. Not sexier farming. Lordy – get your mind out of the gutter! Sexist farming. The hens and the roosters have been separated! All the boys have been left outside. And all the girls are in the hen house. I do not want those huge roosters in with my hens for the winter. When they…
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