It’s that time of year, and with the calls we’ve been getting asking about chicks, I thought it wise to post on the subject.
Irrigating our small field adjacent to the house
We have a 3/4 ac field adjacent to the house that we are using for our CSA. One of our issues is; how to get water to it on such a small scale?
Posted in Row Crop
Tagged gallons, garden hose, irrigation, pulsation sprinkler, soaker hose, t-post
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Food bank potato and veggy planting day
This past Saturday we had a few volunteers from the food bank over to help planting a large collection of veggies on our farm.
Posted in General
Tagged food bank, pepper, potato, row, tomato, volunteers, zucchini
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Raising Chickens on Knotty Bottoms Farm
Raising chickens has been described as a relatively easy way of growing your own meat on very little land. Chickens take up relatively small amounts of space, have simple care needs, and are definitely one of the cheaper livestock animals that you can purchase. That’s why when we decided to venture into livestock, chickens were our first choice. Continue reading
Husqvarna 355fxt
We’re at a point now where there is hardly any more that we can reach with the brush hog. So came time to decide, clear a calculated 6-8 acres of fence line by hand, or buy a tool to do it. Who am I to say no to a new toy.
Note to self
When fueling the chainsaw, make sure to stir the fuel so when you pour the fuel in the saw it isn’t just oil … the saw doesn’t work that well running on oil and a bit of gas.
Burning brush
The last two weekends we’ve spent burning the massive brush piles we’ve accumulated over the summers work. Something to note, after drying all summer … they burn fast! Something to consider is that the leaves and what not will throw a lot of embers, so keep the area clear to avoid starting a grass fire. Keep the tractor ready to bury the left overs when it has all burned out.
Results: 1ac field ploughed and disked + money stuff
This field was tall grass and hard packed to the point that the dump truck that brought the crushed rock for our septic didn’t leave tire marks.
2010′s Vegetable Garden
This year we decided to use the field beside the house for a vegetable garden. Thankfully that field was one of the less overgrown, without any saplings or large trees to clear. After struggling for several hours with a gas powered tiller we had enough room to plant a large vegetable garden (considerably larger than ones we’ve done in the past but I was hoping for a challenge). Now that we’ve come to the end of the season, its time to tally up what we’ve taken out of our vegetable patch and the lessons we’ve learned.
Plowing under an over grown field
Our farm has been let to overgrow for many years, to the end that there were multiple generations of prickly ash, buckthorn, maple etc that needed to be removed or mowed. This made plowing an interesting adventure to say the least.
Posted in Disking, Plowing
Tagged brush hogging, clumps, dearborn plow, disking, massey disk, ploughing, root balls, sticks, trash
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