by admin | Feb 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last year, our potato production was great! We planted three rows consisting of Russet, red, blue and Yukon gold potatoes. We picked up the initial starts at the local feed store (note that starter potatoes aren’t sprayed with a sprout inhibitor like potatoes you get...
by admin | Feb 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
How is everyone fairing after the ice storm? We got an inch of ice, and no snow. We lost power Friday evening. In hopes of it coming back, we went to bed in the dark and did not haul out the generators. It was cold enough nothing was going to spoil. When we woke...
by admin | Feb 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
It is hard to believe that it is already time to think about the garden for this year, but it is. We have been receiving seed catalogs in the mail for the last month. We spent one evening this past week drawing out the garden and determining what we are going to do....
by admin | Feb 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last spring was our 1st year doing mason bees. I was recently driving by the nursery where I got bees last year, and they had a sign out advertising “Mason bees in stock”. This got us thinking that it is time to take stock of what we have and decide if we are doing it...
by admin | Jan 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Over the years, we have had issues with predators killing our poultry and stealing eggs. Mostly, it’s been racoons, skunks, possums, weasels, and crows (check out a past blog on them here). We have solar-powered predator control lights all over the poultry pasture...
by admin | Jan 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last week, Greg pruned up all 27 of our orchard trees, rows of grapes and berries in the garden. He then sprayed the orchard trees with dormant spray. We are all ready for things to start blooming this spring. Pruned orchard Winter is also the time to plant trees...
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