Storm damage 3 months out
The storm that hit right before halloween this year knocked down numerous trees and countless branches. This is what is stil out in the field – i do not exaggerate when i say that all the grass you see in this field was covered with limbs. we have been steadily picking away at it and are many […]
Art
Marianne Vitale just had her show reviewed. we had so much fun hosting the burning and shooting mentioned in the article. Jesse and Chris were literally a hoot to have and anthony and kristen even got out amps around the fire and there were some sick baselines laid down . http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/arts/design/marianne-vitale.html
Electrical upgrade for solar and off grid power generation
I have signed a power purchase agreement with http://www.solarcity.com/ which means that they are going to install an 8KW grid tied array out in the upper field. This should meet all of the electrical demands of the farm if we are careful. In order to make this happen we needed to have all of the electricity […]
ground prep and railroad tie retaining wall for the new greenhouse
the dream from the beginning has been to attach a half hoop greenhouse to the south edge of the house. andrew faust and joel salatin both speak about the benefits of this arrangement. in short it uses the thermal mass and heating systems – we just added a wood stove – of the house to […]
The Appalachian Trail
After 2 years on the farm Amber and I finally visited the AT despite being a few miles from the Dover oak tree which is supposed to be the largest oak tree on the trail. We spent an hour walking up to the telephone pioneers shelter. It was a 5 minute drive to the trail […]
turkey day
we had quite the multicultural gathering… fred and family, hannah, asleigh, hil, christian, our familia here, and others totaling about 25. we feasted on the seasons bounty. Much to be thankful for this year.
Warm Thoughts
We’re actually very excited about snuggling down for the winter, but here’s a warm-weather photo anyway. The sunflowers were beautiful this year! Sunday was hopefully our last field day for the year (though there is still plenty of branch clean-up after that snow storm). We pulled up and put away about half-a-field’s worth of drip […]
Happy Fall, Everyone!
Our second year as a farm was quite an adventure, but we made it through! The early snowstorm took out a lot of beautiful maple branches and knocked our power out for almost a week, but overall it wasn’t too bad (in fact it was beautiful). The field is mostly tucked away for winter, strawberries […]