(Picture from our little paw paw tree.) It started out promising. The weather was just awful. Hot May. Dry June. Record breaking rain July. Normal August—oh, yeah. Hurricanes. There is black rot on my Concord grapes and even the pears … Continue reading
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It has been a long winter. … Continue reading
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
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
(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
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
(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
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
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
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