we have a truck
our friend alan made the 8 day journey across reno with his crazy co-pilot steven. the discomo is now happily parked in the barn as with her roof rack she does not fit in the garage – to say nothing of still being soaked in playa dust. hopefully the weather cooperates and we can take […]
expanding and experimenting
so our friend and mentor, verena, had this great idea that we should be able to use a bunch of 1-2″ sticks to make fence posts for deer fencing. here are the first few in the ground. i spent an hour pulling various pieces of already fallen wood out of the woods. i then watched […]
Row cover materials came
I’ve been ordering most of our supplies from Johnny’s Seeds in Vermont. The row cover materials arrived this week, so we should be able to put out our we-were-really-excited-and-started-too-early sprouts next weekend. It should be just warm enough (this row cover protects down to 28 degrees and lets in 85% of the light). It has […]
knowing what to buy
It seems pretty obvious that in order to be a successful farmer you need to buy as little as possible. It is also important that you have the correct (and most well-made) tools you need to get the job done – multiple farmers have stressed the importance of this to us. We’re just starting out, […]
indoor compost, a visit from ARK, and recycling
we took some old recycling containers and used them to get our indoor compost going with the help from some carbon sawdust from the stable. so far we are generating a grocery bag of trash per weekend – not terrible considering we are mid move and unpacking like crazy. ARK came to visit today and […]
Cargo
right now we are shopping in the city and bringing up what we need. i guess backpacks are a regular sight around here with the Appalachian train trail just a few miles away – including its own metro north train stop. this week we came packed with hardware including a 73″ window shade movie screen. […]
