For those of you concerned about the well being of the baby deer I recently discovered in one of our pastures, I can report this morning that the fawn is alive and well. It’s gotten bigger, which tells me that the fawn re-united with its mother and is feeding. While scything milkweed this morning I […]
Little did I suspect when I signed up for this farm gig that my most important tool would be a scythe. From a time-warped, 18th Century perspective, this makes sense, since most of our 30 acres consists of grass. This time of year, grass grows fast and tall, hellbent on making seed. In addition to […]
All you honey bee and monarch butterfly lovers out there are going to hate me when you learn that I’ve spent the last two days slashing away and slaying milkweed plants in our upper pasture. Believe me, 10 acres have never looked so huge as when you attempt to undo a milkweed infestation on them. […]
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