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 […]
My first chore of the day takes me to the wood stove in the living room to start a fire. Usually this involves first removing the ash from the previous days fire so that air can better circulate through the floor of the stove. What to do with all that ash? As you may be […]
Last spring we got a call from the previous owners of our farm property informing us a tree had fallen over the wire fence around the orchard. They were still living here as tenants, and they wanted us to know that part of the fence was down because deer were getting into the orchard and […]
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