Latest farm news
Can you say hoe, hoe, hoe?
Oct 07, 2015
What, you say I can’t spell? Well, let me tell you — someone just acquired a back HOE for the tractor. Super excited. Isn’t the whole purpose of the farm to collect more toys?
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Mr. Mouse
Jun 03, 2015
While walking though the field, I came upon a deer mouse that leapt through the grass ahead of me. Startled at first, I took a moment to watch him move along to one of the large Christmas trees and I peeked under the tree to see where he might be going. Curious about my attention, t
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and so it goes
Jun 03, 2015
It seems the stars have recently aligned unfavorably. I had just put the mowers back together to start the summer mowing. The Cub needed a couple of minor parts to reattach the deck while the John Deere deck needed a complete overhaul. I had to weld reinforcement steel onto the dec
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rain?
May 27, 2015
After planting 1,000 trees at the beginning of May and 1,200 last spring, we need some real spring rain to get the trees of to a good start. It seems that we’ve gone about 4 weeks without more than a trace of rain and things have been unseasonably parched. With this years trees
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Christmas Trees in the summer?
May 27, 2015
Sure, most people probably don’t think of Christmas trees so much when the birds are chirping and bees buzzing during the warm season we’re in right now. But, Nick & Kim have corrected me on that. Back in December of 2013, they got engaged while at our farm choosing a
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2015 Tree census
May 27, 2015
I did a tree census to see how many were left after the 2014 Christmas season. I just thought it was interesting to compare a an image from October to one more recently. I should dig out a 2013 image, too, too for comparison. Anyway, this is just from the 4 acre section on Route 28
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