Category: September 2012
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On the Grow
September 29, 2012 Today we started one of the last buildings that I will build in this lifetime. It will be a “wash-house”. A place for washing summer vegetables, butchering chickens, cutting up our farm raise livestock and smoking hams and bacons. It has been a dream…
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Spelt … This Small Farmer’s Friend
September 28, 2012 Spelt also known as speltz, is one of my most favored crops. It fills our farms needs nicely. The grain, fed whole, right off the combine, makes wonderful horse feed. The draft horses get all they need from this grain, salt and mineral and our…
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On The Level
September 27, 2012 My youngest son is building a pole barn at his place. It is slow going, but progress is steady. He nor I, are carpenters, but we are getting it built just the same. I think working together, taking it slow and trying to be precise…
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A wagon load of Promise
September 26, 2012 Yesterday I took the last of my pumpkins and squash to the produce auction. I proudly wheeled the last two pallets into their place at the auction. I then went to my friend Marvin’s farm to haul a load for him too. When I…
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Off to Market
September 25, 2012 Today, I will take our last load of pumpkins to the produce auction. The harvest is complete. Our little experiment is done, as far as, the produce is concerned. I won’t know the final numbers for a few days, but the mere fact that it’s…
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Made in the Shade
September 23, 2012 The rain has started to fall. Normal weather is returning to northeast Ohio. The grass and pastures are greening back up and the lawn needs mowed weekly again. It came a little too late for my field crops, but I am thankful just the same.…
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Squash & Pumpkin Harvest
September 19, 2012 We got the first load of squash and pumpkins out of the field and off to market. This is the bulk of our butternut squash and most of the pie pumpkins. Tonight we gathered in the last of those and accumulated one more bin of…
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Pig Barn Addition
September 18, 2012 After two, ten-hour days, the pig barn addition is complete, except for installing the two front windows. The large sliding window shown in the photo, I found along side of the road with a free sign on it. It had been in a yard sale,…
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Chasing Firewood
September 17, 2012 I have been chasing my tail. I am trying to get several projects started and finished. I got a call from a friend who had a couple of trees he was taking down. Yep, free for the taking. I just had to go get it. I…
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Building Character
September 14, 2012 Last evening I had more commitments than time. I needed to be 50 miles south of home to pick up speltz seed before dark. I also had scheduled a concrete truck to come today at 8:00 am. I still had to get the pig barn floor…
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