I had intended on writing some more blogs about apple tree grafting this year but I’ll admit that between family, work, apple tree grafting, and maple syrup production I haven’t had as much free time to blog. I spent a good deal of time looking forward to spring this year Read more…
Maple syrup season had a slow start for us this year. Last year the weather was right where we tapped the trees at the end of February and we did our first boil on March 3rd. This year we tapped on March 2nd but only because the forecast made it Read more…
I have been anxiously waiting for maple syrup season to start since it ended last year. We’ve been doing maple syrup for a couple of years now but last year we started taking things more seriously with an eye to start selling the syrup this year as our first farm Read more…
I won’t lie to you folks – I’ve been looking forward to spring since last summer. The farm is a busy place most of the year but tends to calm down for a month or two early in the year when it’s just too cold to do anything outside. While Read more…
As I talked about in my last post we purchased a lumber mill for the farm and I talked about the delivery and building the head. I was able to accomplish that in a weekend of on and off work – it took me about 5 hours total to get Read more…
I love working with wood and I have for many years dreamed of getting a lumber mill. However when I had thought about milling lumber it had always been with a mindset toward milling oak or maple for carpentry projects. Then earlier this year when looking for some lumber for Read more…
One of the products we’d like to make at the farm is hard apple cider. The first apple trees I’ve been focusing on grafting have been mostly heirloom cider varieties. With any luck we’ll be harvesting apples from at least some of those trees in the next 4-5 years. That Read more…
One of the things we looked forward to the most about the farm was having space for a big garden. To be fair – the garden for the most part has been Larua’s domain. The farm had an existing garden space which Laura has spent a great deal of effort Read more…
Well I’ll admit that I’m a bit further behind on this blog than I’d like to be but as per usual the summer months flew by and we found ourselves getting ready for winter all of a sudden. That said, I’m going to try to get caught up slowly over Read more…
As I mentioned in my last post I was anxious to get the grafts up to the farm and get them in the ground. But before I could do that – I had to build a nursery to put them in so roaming deer and rabbits wouldnt just eat them Read more…