July 2nd
Around here this seems to be the season for farm tours! After a blistering hot weekend where you barely moved it went back to the 70’s. Friends with grandkids came out to visit – hold the baby chicks that a hen just came out of the barn with, feed the pigs, cuddle the kittens [...]
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July on the Homestead
Posted in Cattle, Critters, Gardening, Journal, Pigs, Poultry, The Homestead on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
June on the Homestead (a little late!)
Posted in Cattle, Critters, Dogs, Gardening, Journal, Pigs, Poultry, The Homestead, Tools on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know, I’ve been remiss in posting this summer but it’s been very busy!
I have been keeping a journal of sorts though so I will try to catch up with this post for June.
June 2nd:
Things have been hopping around here. I gave my earthway seeder a real workout! I put in a huge corn patch [...]
Busy May gardening
Posted in Cattle, Critters, Gardening, Journal, Pigs, The Homestead on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few days with nice weather have started everything growing finally. Up to that point we were about three weeks behind this season.
I found some great yard art for my front garden and got everything planted into that garden including the straw bale garden along one edge. This year I planted the portions that were [...]
April 21 – when will winter be over?
Posted in Cattle, Critters, Gardening, Journal, Pigs, Poultry, The Homestead on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Western Washington is having a long string of wintery weather just when usually the garden should be starting! It’s frustrating to still be inside watching the snow, hail, sleet and dreary weather. I was able to run out after work THursday and till up most of the garden areas including the cover crops planted last [...]
March Update
Posted in Cattle, Critters, Gardening, Infrastructure, Journal, Poultry, The Homestead on March 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Wow – it’s been a while! Even with the very nasty weather we saw a couple of breaks to get outdoor spring chores accomplished.
Fencing
We got a major portion of the fencing completed. A new area for the Dark Cornish chickens gives them a new quarter acre of brush and grass with their tractors and dog [...]
February Update
Posted in Cattle, Gardening, Journal, The Homestead on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Feb 18, 2008
Just had three days with no rain and on a holiday weekend. Finally some progress around the homestead. Kurt got in a bunch of T-posts for the new fence – still need to get the welded wire up but soon the majority will be done. I got the path completely brush hogged to put [...]
Early January Update
Posted in Cattle, Critters, Gardening, Journal, Poultry, The Homestead on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it’s been a rocky start to 2008! I had my two tom turkeys die – it may be blackhead but not sure. Now I only have the three hens left. That was a huge amount of meat that went to waste! It’s been damp and cold, rather wet and cold! Snow yesterday that is [...]
Dexter Cattle
Posted in Cattle, Journal, The Homestead on December 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I started out at Deberosa with poultry. It was a natural progression because buried in the brambles behind the barn was a perfect hen house, with a bank of 15 galvanized steel nest boxes.
But this post is about cattle! After several years of clearing gardens and enjoying meat and eggs from the poultry, we began [...]
