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Annual Maintenance
Oct 17, 2022
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As cool nights and early sunsets roll into October, we squeeze out every last minute of the day in a last dash to get our farm work done before frost sets in. Mid July is always seductive with long, hot and dry days that tease that they’ll go one forever. Then late September rev
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Leaves & fertilizer
Nov 10, 2015
I’ve been wrestling with ways to enhance soil fertility. Of course, my goal is organic, so no synthetic fertilizers. When I first started out, I’d bring in organic compost but it’s a lot of work between shoveling it into wheel barrows and getting it into beds. It&
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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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May 07, 2015
Thanks to Lou for helping out in early May to transplant trees from our query beds to fill for some of the 2014 babies that didn’t make it through our winter. What a winter it was! We lost 95 trees from the original 1,000. There’s Lou in the background running the auger&
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2015 Tree planting coming up.
Apr 17, 2015
Hey farm friends! That 4′ of snow covering the fields three weeks ago is finally melted and the fields are beginning to dry out. We still have snow in the woods as maple sugaring season winds down but our thoughts are turning to planting the Christmas trees. Winter was so crazy
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Green stuff
Sep 11, 2014
With September comes time for our annual equipment maintenance on the farm. I’ve tended to dislike these types of routine maintenance because I dislike getting covered in petroleum products and it always feels like a waste somehow to take seemingly fine oil and replace it with
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broken equipment
Jun 15, 2014
Seems that I’ve had to spend a lot of the beginning of summer fixing a few broken things. First, my disc horrors broke leaving the second gang of disks in the field. I thought something was funny when I rode by them on the tractor. Then one of my lawn mowers broke a spindle &
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Looking ahead to next maple season
May 26, 2014
There’s a line of white pines that I’m eager to take out to open up some long forgotten apple trees and high bush blueberries. This will be perfect wood for boiling maple sap next spring. Thanks to Chris, Danielle & Scott, and Atlanta for helping out — there
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