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Smoke and brimstone
Tarnation! Things have been busy here in hillbillyland. There’s a lot of farming, building, foresting, and so forth going on… so much, we hardly have time to think. But occasionally, we do get a chance to take a break and … Continue reading
Flattin’ up- and fruit!
Here we see Emily and Alison flattin’ up a bunch of seeds. A lot of these flat have to be prepared every spring, so that we can put all those eager little seedlings into the prepared beds. It makes for … Continue reading
Bee Day
Last Saturday, the local bee club put on a Bee Day class. Several of us in the club worked together to set it up- Bob coordinated it, Sheila and I did the advertising, and Trisha did the catering. The star … Continue reading
Gravel Creek
I’ve taken to calling the property that is to become the new home of our farm (and us!) “Gravel Creek.” This is to avoid confusion when I say things like “I have to pop by the farm to pick up … Continue reading
Bramley Seedling
One of the things we’ve liked about the new property from the very start was this cool old apple tree. We mentioned it in passing to Lance, a friend of ours who also happens to own the farm across the … Continue reading
Elsewhere in the world…
This blog tends to be extremely local to the goings-on in our small valley in northwest Oregon. But occasionally I hear of events in far off lands that remind me that this all started long ago and far away… in … Continue reading
East wall down
I feel a little bad that our farm blog is getting temporarily overrun as a house remodel blog, but that’s at least three quarters of what’s going on right now. Maybe that’s OK, though, as homebuilding and shelter have been … Continue reading
A registered apiary
Things are looking good on the beekeeping front: it appears as though all four of our colonies are going to make it through the winter (keeping fingers crossed!), and I just hived two new purchased colonies this weekend. This brings … Continue reading
The Trees
I don’t know why so many of my posts are titled after rock songs; I guess I have a constantly running soundtrack of 70s and 80s music running through my head at all times (today’s post is brought to you … Continue reading
A room with a view
Destruction continues apace at the Gravel Creek cottage. It’s Ryan’s spring break, and while his class is out playing, he’s stuck helping me destroy stuff. The weather has really given us a break so far, and we’ve had three pretty … Continue reading
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