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source In Western Massachusetts where I live, the soil has been continuously farmed since the 1670’s. In most places where soil has been...

The last fishing trip at end of September As of Monday night they had not decided on surgery and he’d had a full spine MRI to determine ...

We got the diagnosis for my husband today. His L2 vertebra has shattered and the pieces went into his spinal cord. The L3 and L4 vertebr...

On Saturday it was to be warm, so I got out there and started moving mulch. I needed to mulch around the garlic in the Small garden, but...

Besides peeling shallots for a long time, I’d also decided to get the oil lamps we use ready. We’d had 2 power outages in the last week,...

When my helper friend and I planted the shallots on Thursday, we took as many of the big ones as we needed. I had a lot of shallots left...

Thursday morning my helper friend was here, and good thing too! I had a bad night with the power out as my sleep machine didn’t work. Fi...

My intern was here on Wednesday and the first thing we did was clean up the huge sheets of plastic and fold them up. Next we got them an...

On Tuesday morning my helper friend was here and I wanted to get the inoculants moved out of the Big garden and spread as much as possib...

I had planted 4 broccoli plants but it would not be enough for a year. So I ordered a 25# box from our farm store Market Share. It was b...

You may recall back in 2019 we discovered the waterline from the road to the house had broken. We never knew because it was before the w...

I did something I’ve not done before: bought mulch hay. In the past I scavenged from area barns and farms. But with my husband’s back so...

I got out there at 7:15AM Thursday morning and started prepping for planting garlic. My helper friend was here to assist. I got him star...

Drawing the New Herb garden for 2021 by oil lamp light I have to get the garlic planted before October 15th. Actually I like to have it ...

On Tuesday my helper friend was here and I wanted to tackle the other garden beside the steps so I could plant the other mum. I took the...

When the front porch was done in August 2019, I was up in the barn prepping for Freezer Camp. I did not know they were doing it. They en...

On Sunday night when my husband went out to do chores in the pasture pen (which had not gotten moved) he found this. We couldn’t measure...

We’d missed our anniversary trip to the Fair this year. Last year I had gotten a Fair t-shirt, one of the older style ones. I was messi...

Friday morning my helper friend was here and he set about finishing the Anne raspberry bed. He put down some of the amendment for the Sm...

On Thursday he headed out fishing, to a place 30 miles offshore. He checks the forecast to make sure there aren’t going to be rough seas...

I have a tiny bed of Anne raspberries. It was abandoned last year due to construction. On Thursday, after he finished the last foliar fe...

On Wednesday after I got the pasture coop moved with my son I went out to the Big garden and started cleaning out the perimeter. My son ...

On Tuesday it was the coldest yet, had a good hard frost in the night. As soon as it had warmed up, I went out to get what I could from ...

We’ve been getting 4 pullet eggs from the new flock most days. One day a large egg with a broken end came in. I saved it for the old cat...

We got the first frost Friday night. I had filled the dehydrators with nasturtiums and toothache plant on Friday as I thought they’d be ...

I spent the afternoon on the couch dehydrating nasturtiums. I filled both dehydrators as I had not yet done any nasturtiums. It was to d...

My helper friend was here on Friday and we tackled the tomatoes and the pea fence. We harvested tomatoes first. Half of this garden is d...

This little guy and 3 more of his buddies were why my parsley was so bug eaten on Thursday. It’s a swallowtail caterpillar and I also fi...