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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
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Tagged Animals, Equipment, Experiments, Farmhack, farmhacks, Farming, goats, pasture, projects, sheep, temporary fencing, Tools
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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: 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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Farming: Little pastures
One of the transformations in thinking I have experienced over the past few years as I have taken over the farm and learned how to farm it is how I look at grass. Before, I thought of grass in the way I think a lot of people do, as an ornamental ground cover that functioned […] Continue reading
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Tagged Farming, food independence, Grass, Independence, pasture, pastures
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Farming: Cows in the yard!
They were invited, though.
It’s my first attempt at some pasture management in the form of using the cows to mow some grass that we’d otherwise have to burn gas to get rid of. The cows seem to be taking it all in stride, although one of our dogs wants to have a conniption because the […] Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, Cows, electric fence, Experiments, Farming, Grass, pasture, Self-sufficiency
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