A Little Bit of Land

Alfalfa

Alfalfa

Amy making mozzarella cheese from our goat's milk

Amy making mozzarella cheese from our goat’s milk

Peach Blossom

Peach Blossom

Allis parked by the barn

Allis parked by the barn

Spectacular Unexpected Egg Spectrum

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Courtesy of my creative hens

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Cover Crops and Forage

 

Field planted to peas and radishes as a cover crop and winter forage for livestock, and a few other photos from around the place.

Prairie Clover and a Sawmill

Round-headed prairie-clover (left) and White prairie-clover from northwest pasture – good forage

Custom-built sawmill bought at an action last month

Another view of the saw

Good label

New lean-to built on the west side of the shop

Scribed rough sawn walnut panel for a chest

 

 

Silo Angels

Harvest

wheat shocks

Wheat, from the field to bread, cabbage into sauerkraut, carrots, wild sand-plums and blackberries, a rigging axe harvested from a field, chicks cleaning an alfalfa patch

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To Build A Haystack

Below is my process of making a haystack.  A good example of the transfer of energy.

Mowing the haw with a scythe.

The scythe efficiently cuts and gathers in one motion.  Good technology.

Tidy windrows left by the scythe.

Upset this fellow, 3″ with legs.

  

The hay rack, beginnings of the stack.

Nearly half-way.  (Three legged dog shown for scale)

All done.  The other half of the picture is the good scent of cured hay.

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