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State of the Farm: Spring, 2018

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Steven Popkes

  It has been a long winter. … Continue reading →

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State of the Farm, Spring 2017

Posted on May 7, 2017 by Steven Popkes

  Well, it’s spring up here finally. Real spring. When the fruit trees blossoms and the bees come out. None of this “sort of” spring where the temperature hovers a few precious degrees above freezing and the sky is gray and … Continue reading →

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Arbors 101

Posted on October 16, 2016 by Steven Popkes

Picture from here. I’ve spoken of the grapes we grow before. One of my two readers asked about the arbors that support them. The other one was uninterested. So I’m going to talk about the various arbors I’ve built. Let’s … Continue reading →

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Posted in gardening, Lifestyle, Uncategorized, Writing life | Tagged arbors, farming, grapes, Steven Popkes

State of the Farm: The Problem of Abundance

Posted on November 1, 2015 by Steven Popkes

(Picture from here.) Yeah, another State of the Farm. We’re still in harvest season. It tasks me. I shall have it. I’ve complained about this year’s weather before and, truth be told, we did not get the amount of garden … Continue reading →

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Posted in Writing life | Tagged farming, Steven Popkes, wine

Status of the Farm

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Steven Popkes

It’s Tuesday, October 28, and I’m about to go off line for a month or so. I tore the tendon in my right arm and in about three hours a good surgeon is going to reattach it. It will be … Continue reading →

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Falling Into Harvest

Posted on August 31, 2014 by Steven Popkes

(Picture from here.) It’s harvest season on our little microfarm. Nanofarm? Postage Stamp Farm? That might be a good name for the place. We have two gardens. The main one south of the house and the east garden where the … Continue reading →

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Lambing 2014

Posted on March 8, 2014 by Chris Dolley

It’s that time of year again. The incredibly wet, incredibly windy winter has passed into memory and we’ve switched from floods to proto-drought with nothing but full sun forecast for the next fortnight. The weather only does extremes these days. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Animals, Blogs, Lifestyle | Tagged farming, lambing, lambs, sheep

Lambing 2013 Ends!

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Chris Dolley

A short post this week as I’m working on two major projects which will be announced next week. Watch this space. And look at those lambs… This was one of the fastest lambings ever – with all four ewes lambing … Continue reading →

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Posted in Animals, Humor, Lifestyle | Tagged farming, lambing, lambs, sheep

The Smallholding in January

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Chris Dolley

People may be forgiven for thinking January must be a quiet month on a smallholding. Nothing’s growing, it’s freezing – what could possibly need doing? A lot. For one there’s feeding. There’s usually enough grass on our holding that we … Continue reading →

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Posted in Animals, Culture, horses, Lifestyle | Tagged farming, gardening, hedges, smallholding

Lambing 2011 – in pictures!

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Chris Dolley

This last week has been a week of lambs and interrupted nights – it’s not easy trying to sleep when you have a LambCam TV set next to the bed. And it’s on all night – both sound and picture … Continue reading →

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Posted in Animals | Tagged farming, lambing, lambs, sheep

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