agriculture
A Little Bit of Land
Alfalfa
Amy making mozzarella cheese from our goat’s milk
Peach Blossom
Allis parked by the barn
Spectacular Unexpected Egg Spectrum
Courtesy of my creative hens
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
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.
The School of the Transfer of Energy 