We’re nearing the end of a second grazing of the upper pasture. The animals greet me each morning from behind the temporary fencing eager to move to the next paddock. They’re doing a great job cleaning up the farm around the edges and helping to build healthy soil.
Lambing has thrown our routine out of whack in more ways than one. I’m trying to move the recently shorn sheep out of the permanent paddock and onto spring pasture but they won’t follow the way they used to. We open the paddock gate and instead of being lead to the pasture enclosure behind a […]
Those of you who’ve been following along might remember my battles with the milkweed in the upper pasture earlier in the year. I spent days pushing through the overgrown fields trying to eradicate the milkweed with my scythe. Well, we’ve had that pasture mowed twice since then. Now its an eight-acre expanse of grass and […]
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