Well, it looks like we’ll survive our first year on Spy Dog Farm, and what a year it’s been. In addition to moving our lives from the cozy confines of the District of Columbia, we’ve installed fences, laid utility lines, raised chickens, grazed sheep, goats and a cow and endured an epic winter on […]
Everything is running late this year because of the unusually harsh winter. We’re finally getting around to pruning the trees in our fruit orchard with a helpful assist from our friend Gini, the closest thing we know to an arborist. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have a clue what to do. Our farm property came with an […]
Our friend Gini arrived the other day to give us a weather-delayed lesson in fruit tree pruning. We gathered our shears, pulled on our wool caps and hiked out to the orchard where Mother Nature had a surprise waiting for us: something has been eating the bark off our apple trees. Numerous trees, barely five […]
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