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My View from the Ramparts: Farming in the age of COVID-19
The past couple of months has been a strange time here at Innisfree, as I know it has been for everyone during this time of social isolation and pandemic outbreak. What’s been strangest for us is how relatively little our … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Farming, Life, Philosophy
Tagged challenges, Choices, covid, covid-19, Experiments, farm life, Farming, goals, Lessons, Ohio, Outcomes, pandemic, readiness, Self-sufficiency, smallhold, social distancing
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My View from the Ramparts: Heading in to 2020
The past few years have been tumultuous ones for me here at Innisfree for a variety of reasons. I got really sick and am just now at the point where I am recovering. In the meantime, we ended our Angus … Continue reading → Continue reading
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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My View from the Ramparts: Reintroducing this blog
As you can see from the history, this blog has languished for a while. Well, it will no more. What prompted the absence and the change? It started with the fact that I got really sick two and a half … Continue reading → Continue reading
Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Please excuse the mess
Really, it’s more of a metaphorical mess as we go about the business of steering the beast that is Innisfree on the Stillwater in a new direction. What does that direction look like? Well, we’re now share-cropping organic row crops, … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Philosophy, Updates
Tagged agriculture, challenges, Experiments, Farming, lamb, meat, organic, perennial, permiculture, sustainable, wool
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