Many thanks to appleang for taking all these awesome photos!

( April work party--goat pen clearing, gates, tree planting, and Ozymandias )

our birds are getting big. the jam was great, except for that one bit. we got lots done. even the books. and then today hit me ( Read more... )

this is it. first freeze last night, though a very light one. we covered the tomatoes with frost blankets & old sheets (where the frost blanket wasn't big enough), and they made it. we're supposed to get nighttime lows in the 40s for the rest of the week, so will probably not re-cover the tomatoes until the next freeze warning. i'm praying more ( Read more... )

I was just telling Jenny at Ironwood Farm that since we got our livestock guardian dog, Thistle, we haven't had any predator problems in the barnyard.

that is, until last night.

aisa0 went out to do evening chores last night, and found one of our young chickens wedged between the two nesting boxes, dead. she had apparently stuffed herself back in ( Read more... )

( this week on the farm )

( cut for length & photos )

( Maybe because I don’t necessarily want to be a member of the same species of people who trample folks to death to get first shot at the discount tvs. )