Happy Halloween!

When I was a kid my mother took me Trick or Treating.  We started at our house, went around the corner to my Nana and Grampy’s house, down the hill and around the next corner to my Uncle Bobby’s house, then next door to my aunt’s house.  There were a lot houses in between.  Then [...]

Pretty while it lasted

The snow was gone by 10 a.m.
The last of the pumpkins.

Are you looking for me?

Someone in New England is looking for me.  Searches show that whomever you are, you know my former business name and my full name.  Granted, anyone can find those in 60 seconds or less, but you specifically searched for those things.  I think I know who you are.  Get in touch with me!  You can [...]

First Snow 2007

 Overnight flurries.  The top of the ground was frozen yesterday morning.
It won’t be long before the snow that falls doesn’t melt.

Give Away

So I was thinking this morning, it’s time for a give away.  I’ll start taking names on November 1 and draw a name, or two, before Thanksgiving.
Hint:  It will come from my farm.
When the time comes I’ll set up an email address for entries.  Feel free to pass this on.

Safety

I know we all know this but it’s worth a reminder. Be careful.

I needed to close up the greenhouse for the night because of a high wind prediction. The poly on my greenhouse is wrapped around a 52′ steel bar. There’s an L on that to aid in rolling and unrolling. I [...]

Satisfaction

Satisfaction is:

standing in the middle of the field watching your chickens, ducks and turkeys wander
having to search for weeds in the greenhouse because the greens are so lush the weeds are hard to see
discovering a few rutabaga when you thought the crop failed
carrots so big you have to dig them out of the soil
huge carrots [...]

Red Wigglers

My worms were delivered yesterday. They’re rather strange looking, but interesting. They’re in their new bin and doing whatever it is they do. I bought them from WormMainea.
The turkey is in a new compost pile. She had an injury with a lot of scar tissue. It looked like she might have [...]

A Dead Turkey

I’m on the laptop so this will probably be filled with typos. I’m still not used to this keyboard.
One of the hen turkeys has been hiccuping. It happened off and on, sometimes daily and sometimes not for several days. This past Saturday she was standing in the corner of the pen hunched [...]

I’ve Been Propositioned!

I don’t remember if I’ve mentioned this here. I am a writer. People send me money to write. Kinda cool. I used to be an editor, though you wouldn’t guess that by my less than grammatically correct writing here. I used to be an English major, another thing you couldn’t prove here. [...]

Why should you buy locally produced foods?

Why should you buy locally produced foods?

In the Greenhouse Today

In the greenhouse today – mold. I made a mistake. I planted 10,000 spinach seeds, watered them in and covered the bed with Agribon. We haven’t had enough rain recently. The well is low so I’ve been very careful about conserving water. I didn’t want the spinach bed to dry [...]

Autumn Work

The weather is cooling down. The ten day forecast says our day time temps will be in the 50°s. This is a boost for me, the nudge I need to finish up the fall work. I spent all of one day and part of another away from work but did a decent [...]

Late Afternoon in the Greenhouse

Late afternoon. It’s hard to see what’s growing with minimal light. On the left, against the wall, starting from the opposite end: Two beds of Forono beets, a bed of Purple Globe White Top turnip. Out of sight in the same row: carrots, peas (for organic matter and to fix [...]

More Bourbons

Dust bath!  Turkeys make big indentations.
A tom eating a damaged pumpkin.  I left damaged pumpkins in the field.  The chickens and turkeys will clean them up.

Bourbon Red Turkeys

Time for a poult update. Seven weeks olds. They’re finally confident with me and will come running when I approach the hoop house. I’ve plucked them off perches and carried them to the hoop house so many evenings they must know I’m not going to hurt them. A wild guess – [...]

Maine Nature News

I’ve published this week’s edition of Maine Nature News. This week’s wildlife pics are of moose, a red squirrel and a bird whose identity I’m unsure of.

Chewing The Cud

My favorite blog of the day – Chewing The Cud.  Amanda’s too cool.  And incredibly intelligent.

Back to Work!

I haven’t talked much about it here but it’s worth a mention now.  I’ve had a health concern that kept me tied to the house quite a bit.  It made working difficult and some days impossible.  I had that taken care of this past week and I’m on the mend.  Another day and I think [...]

Plastic

I’m adding a Pet Peeve category this morning. I subscribed to a great blog about health and eating well. It’s full of lots of great tips. Google Reader picked up the last nine blogs and dropped them into my Reader. I made a couple of comments and asked a couple of [...]