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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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Farming: Staying the course, or farming goals for 2010
As I mentioned previously, I give myself a D+ for the past year’s effort. That means there’s still a long way to go, so the goal for this year is to stay the course with what I am already doing. Staying the course means resisting the temptation to add more when what I am already […] Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, challenges, Choices, Farming, goals, pasture management, Seasons, test garden
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Farming: The flow of the seasons
We moderns get very put out by the changes of the seasons, even most farmers. We see the seasons as interruptions of the process we think we should be able to pursue all of the time, and because of that vision, we miss the important processes the seasons introduce. I’m coming to realize that the reason the seasons […] Continue reading
