I have been fairly quiet on here mostly because life has been so hectic at home. Earlier in the year, a friend of ours encouraged us to apply for an EQIP contract to help us implement some of the conservation practices that we really wanted to put into practice on our farm. Some of those …
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Our Farm: Monarch Butterfly on New England Aster
While we were building fence this week, I was able to get pictures of this Monarch butterfly enjoying the nectar of some New England asters. Nearby, we also saw some milkweeds going to seed. Hopefully next year we will see many more Monarchs.
Baling Straw and New Grass Seeding
Earlier this year, I frost seeded red clover on a 40 acre field that my mom owns. Toward the end of June, the renter combined the wheat that he had planted as a companion crop with this new seeding. Shortly after it was combined, we decided to go ahead and mow off the wheat stubble for …
Getting Started With Golden Oyster Mushrooms
This past week, I noticed that our very first Golden Oyster Mushroom has started fruiting! Then when I came to update my post about Golden Oyster mushrooms, I realized I never wrote an original post. Whoops! Anyway, when we started the Wine Cap Mushrooms, we also got spawn for Golden Oysters. We decided to make …
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Our Farm: Wild Black Raspberries
We have been working to replace a short stretch of exterior fence that was in very poor shape. This particular fence is on the perimeter of our farm and runs along a highway. It was overgrown with brush, part of it was board fence that had rotted, and the other part was barbwire that was …