Category: September 2015
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Moonlit Meal
September 30, 2015 September comes to a close with a list of successes for us. We had a nice Vermont vacation. We have our gardens all cleaned up and ready for fall. The speltz are planted and have sprouted thanks to the recent rains. The wood needed for a few…
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Putting The Shine On
September 27, 2015 Tonight is a full moon. There are lots of folks watching it because it is very close to Earth and there will be a lunar eclipse. I will say that it is a beautiful sight, but talking about beautiful sights…. My horses were shining like a new…
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Feeling Crowded
September 25, 2015 What a day. I am thinking that I should be feeling free. Much of the work for the year has been completed, but I am feeling crowded by the looming winter. I guess relaxing for me comes hard. I am thinking about equipment readiness for next year,…
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2015 Speltz Crop Has Been Planted
September 24, 2015 After three marathon days of farm work, my speltz crop is in the ground. I worked until after dark the last three days, but it was worth it. These fields represent next year’s horse grain. It will last me for an entire year providing we get a…
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I Hate To Do It.
September 20, 2015 I have been cleaning up the garden beds and preparing for winter. In the bed above I have a row of awesome Swiss chard growing like crazy. We have eaten lots of it fresh. We have frozen (well my dear wife has) a good quantity of the chard…
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Cider Time!
September 19, 2015 We planted a small orchard three years ago. It still needs lots of growing time, a few replacements and some care. This little tree, however, doesn’t know just how good it is! In this crazy hot summer void of rain, she still made this awesome crop. I…
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Cover Ups
September 17, 2015 It has been a hectic week so far. The garden beds have been all cleaned off, worked up and planted to a cover crop. This year I chose oats. The oats will grow well until about Thanksgiving time. They will then die back and provide a winter…
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A Nip In The Air
September 15, 2015 After several weeks of hot, dry weather, we got a very welcomed three inches of rain. The rains came mostly slow and steady over two and a half days. The ground sucked up the moisture and the grass turned green again. The entire landscape was refreshed. The cool…
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Resting!
September 13, 2015 After a health scare, that shook me to the core, my wife and I went to the state of Vermont. I want to do a story on the Billings farm museum, located just outside of a town called Woodstock. This is not the rock and roll Woodstock,…
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