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Fencing

Happy New Year

March 2, 2010

I tapped trees today, and Lisa planted the first seeds under lights. The 2010 farming year has begun. It was a beautiful day and the sap was running hard. I, of course, couldn’t find the actual taps, so we had to drive to Bascom’s to buy some, with the result that I’ll be lucky to [...]

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False Spring

February 22, 2010

Today was beautiful. It went up only to 41, but the sun was warm and the sky was blue. I spent the day working on fence. I moved the two strands (never got the third one up) of the house side of the pig paddock back out of the flat area they spent the winter [...]

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New Things

February 20, 2010

The puppies are just over three weeks old now. They are getting so mobile! They waddle around all over the place, play with their siblings, and are starting to play with toys, too. Their tails are just starting to point upward and I’m seeing a few starting to curl. I think two of them (yellow [...]

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All the Stuff That Didn't Fit

December 31, 2009

This is our farm notebook. This entry is for what we can remember that was either overlooked or never had a ‘right place’ to put it. We didn’t have help this year. As a result, we made less progress than last year, but at least we made it. We did run more fence, but are [...]

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An Acre is not an Acre

December 19, 2009

Someone mentioned that a lot of people would think that 340 acres was big ag. Actually, if we were farming 340 acres, I’d agree we were big ag. Instead I’ll tell you something about New England agriculture. Virtually all of us own a lot more land than we farm. I once explained the situation to [...]

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What's done is done

December 8, 2009

We got a most of the MUST DOs done today. That makes our third day in a row of working as long as there was daylight and we are bloody exhausted. It seems like such a minor thing on the to-do list, but moving the livestock trailer is often tricky. This time, it was mired [...]

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Ground is a Lousy Ground

December 7, 2009

We got the pigs 100% behind hi-tensile today. It’s supposed to snow again Wednesday and that would have been the end of the electronet. So, instead of using grounded electronet, I’m trying to use ground rods. Guess what. It doesn’t work. This is the same set up I tried to use 4 years ago and [...]

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