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…
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…
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…
While Laura and I had already taken a grafting class at the MN arboretum, I was curious to get more experience so I signed up for a class at Albrecht’s Nursery in Chippewa Falls WI. I was pleased to find it was only about an hour drive from the farm. Read more…
One of the things Im rather anxious to start doing at the farm is planting the orchard and vineyard. I’ve spent the last few years buying books on the various topics surrounding orchards and vineyards but if Im being honest I just haven’t taken the time to read more than Read more…