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My View from the Ramparts: Farmhack: My latest attempt at temporary animal fencing
I’ve spent quite a bit of the past decade trying to figure out how to create portable temporary animal fencing. My previous attempts were mostly focused on cattle because that’s what we had, but now that we have sheep and … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Farming
Tagged Animals, Equipment, Experiments, Farmhack, farmhacks, Farming, goats, pasture, projects, sheep, temporary fencing, Tools
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Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Taming a tangled wilderness
We’re unusually free with sharing our successes and failures here at Innisfree on the Stillwater, a fact that is intentional and purposeful rather than naive and dramatic. You see, our desire, along with giving people access to quality, sustainably grown … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Philosophy
Tagged Animals, arrogance, challenges, Choices, Experiments, failures, Farming, knowledge, Lessons, Morality, risks, sharing
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Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Grass farming
So, after a long hiatus, I’ve decided to reboot this blog. When doing so, it’s often hard to know where to start, so I decided to start with the question we get asked most often: Why don’t we mow our grass? … Continue reading → Continue reading
Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: On animals and worldviews
I suspect that one of the driving forces of the greatest changes in society over the past 100 years versus the past several millenia has been specific movement of people away from caring for food animals. One cannot help but … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, Farming, ideas, Morality, pragmatism, Worldview
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Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Hay season
A couple of times a year, I mow lots of grass. Not in the $40-billion-make-my-lawn-look-like-a-golf-course sort of way, but in the make food for animals sort of way. We mow and bale about 30 acres of grass hay every year … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, Farming, hay, Lessons, pasture, Seasons, thoughts
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