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but it was a beginning
2023
-- november 2023 --
$ 2023.11.12 sun
New life on the homestead
$ 2023.11.11 sat
Had a few mason bees check in.
$ 2023.11.10 fri
Found This guy growing in the interrow plantings between the young apple trees. Good sign for the soil I'm trying to...
$ 2023.11.01 wed
The chickens aren't going to be happy about this. ð¤£
-- october 2023 --
$ 2023.10.30 mon
Anyone know what this is?
$ 2023.10.29 sun
Alley cropping in the young orchard. Now that the deer are fenced out, the trees actually grew.
$ 2023.10.28 sat
Getting dark so early, had to get the headlamp out. Planting this year's apple seedlings. Seed from @Skillcult and hi...
$ 2023.10.27 fri
Was a long, tired summer. Be careful out there. #lyme #lymedisease #ticks #fatigue #homestead #orchardlife #orchar...
-- july 2023 --
$ 2023.07.02 sun
Good day for some homebrewing
-- june 2023 --
$ 2023.06.28 wed
This dystopia is getting old. We need more people working toward something better.
$ 2023.06.18 sun
Swallowtail butterfly larvae on some fennel. I'm pretty sure they are meant to mimic bird poop at this stage. ð¤£
$ 2023.06.07 wed
Wild Mulberry downtown
$ 2023.06.03 sat
2 months ago I was digging ditches in a flooded orchard. Now we are creeping up on drought conditions.
-- may 2023 --
$ 2023.05.26 fri
Momma robin was not happy with me.
$ 2023.05.26 fri
Some tasty chives for us and the pollinators. I wonder if they would work as an understory plant in the orchard.
$ 2023.05.11 thu
Graduation day for the meat birds.
-- april 2023 --
$ 2023.04.28 fri
My childhood held a fairy sightâ
A thousand apple-trees,
All pink and white for my delight
And humming with the bee...
A thousand apple-trees,
All pink and white for my delight
And humming with the bee...
$ 2023.04.21 fri
Growing my 3rd biological kingdom of food this year on the homestead. Fungi must be a part of the future of food.
Che...
Che...
$ 2023.04.18 tue
Doing a little old fashioned research into how they used to do things. Learned about double-working which seems like...
$ 2023.04.11 tue
Grafting last years apple seedlings
$ 2023.04.09 sun
Cold night for the meat chickens. looks like they are out camping in the 2 year old orchard.
$ 2023.04.08 sat
Ere the sun rises!
$ 2023.04.05 wed
So we did a thing...need to scarify seeds? ð¤£
[video: 17976156314152696.mp4] $ 2023.04.05 wed
Spring is here.
$ 2023.04.03 mon
Before (december 2022) and after (april 2023). Many lost the fight. Should have a decent number to collect seeds from.
$ 2023.04.03 mon
Overwintered Bulgarian giant leeks ( seed from @skillcult ) in zone 5b with a low tunnel and lots of leaves. I'll ke...
-- march 2023 --
$ 2023.03.26 sun
Quaking Aspen catkins
$ 2023.03.25 sat
Maybe I should have grown rice instead of apples. ð¤£
$ 2023.03.20 mon
Happy Equinox. Everything is ready to spring.
-- february 2023 --
$ 2023.02.21 tue
Way too early for this.
$ 2023.02.11 sat
Chicken tractor build and Irish Stout brew day. The sun is shining.
$ 2023.02.07 tue
The Fury of Sunsets
Something
cold is in the air,
an aura of ice
and phlegm.
All day I've built
a lifetime and ...
Something
cold is in the air,
an aura of ice
and phlegm.
All day I've built
a lifetime and ...
$ 2023.02.06 mon
I love finding old nests in the winter. Little works of art.
-- january 2023 --
$ 2023.01.29 sun
A winter walk with birdsong and cleaning out the bird houses.
[video: 17941607360534473.mp4] $ 2023.01.01 sun
Clearing out the dying wood.
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