Hello Everyone:
Work continues.
Sales have reached fifty percent of our goal this season...about the usual pace of sales. If you are considering purchasing a share of the 2017 harvest, be sure to contact me soon.
The first big task of 2017 is finished. The wind falls are cleaned up, ensuring that I'll be able to drive in here next spring.
Another great use for dead fall is wood chips, which are useful in maintaining grass free paths.
Not something we do here currently (I don't have a wood chipper yet).
Another example of how we keep waste to a minimum on the farm by using what we have.
So far, no difficulties, but I maintain the traps as a deterrent.
In our six years of farming, rodents have been our number one source of damage. In the barn, they have chewed tarps, stored row covers, and a cardboard box containing tools. In the field, they have damaged some potatoes, nipped the buds off of sprouting bean plants, and even sampled a couple of low hanging tomatoes.
This is not too bad, all things considered. One barn down the road had a rodent gnaw into electrical wiring between the tractor starter switch and the battery,, which in turn caused a short.
The result was a burned down barn. Not bad for an animal weighing a couple of grams.
I made sure that all our outlets were fitted with ground fault circuit interrupters, just in case any of our mice got some ideas...
New post coming in a week or so, we are close to getting the nursery warmed up, with some seed starting soon to follow...
Bob