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…
Well – if not obvious – Im a bit behind on these posts so I’ll do my best to try and be explicit about when I did some of these things as the post date will not align with when I actually did these things. In our last post I Read more…
Well – my last post was more than a year ago where I talked about grafting apple trees. So it seems to make sense to pick things up with that same topic. I had spent some time at the end of last year looking at options for ordering rootstock and Read more…