It’s been a rough day. It was supposed to be a run of the mill Thursday. I had some meetings on the calendar and was scheduled to teach some sales classes at work, but nothing dramatic. The day started quite peacefully. Lucy the Mastiff had no accidents during the night and was well behaved all [...]
Posts Tagged ‘farming mistakes and foibles’
Traumatized
Posted in General Farming, tagged escaped animals, farming mistakes and foibles, fences, Irish Dexter Cattle, pastured beef on May 10, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Something Fishy
Posted in Aquaponics, tagged aquaponics, bluegill, catfish, farming mistakes and foibles, tilapia, Urban Farming on March 1, 2012 | 5 Comments »
All I wanted to do was add some bluegill and catfish to my aquaponics plan so that we would have some cold water hardy fish for extending the vegetable growing season. Since both species tolerate cold water exceptionally well while Tilapia require specific temperature ranges to thrive (survive) it seemed like a good idea to [...]
No Rain, No Clouds but Wow What a Storm!
Posted in Livestock, tagged farming mistakes and foibles, predators on August 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Farming has dark days. We’ve discussed that before. Some are worse than others. Yesterday was one of those. When we got to the farm last evening, Brittan noticed right away that some of the rabbit rangers were moved. One of them had been shifted about 15 feet. As we approached, we noticed that ranger was [...]
Fall Garden Updates – Episode 1
Posted in vegetable gardening, tagged farming mistakes and foibles, gardening mistakes, vegetable gardening on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s still August. It’s still hotter than the Devil’s natural habitat and we are way short on rain in Georgia right now, but it’s still called a Fall garden. I didn’t name it, don’t shoot the messenger. Harvest, presumably there will be one, will be in the Fall (presumably there will be one of those, [...]
Fall Garden – Feeling Ahead or Falling Behind?
Posted in vegetable gardening, tagged farming mistakes and foibles, vegetable gardening on July 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
One of the challenges of bi vocational farming is balance. Both jobs require a great deal of time input, but for the life of me, I can’t squeeze more than 24 hours out of a day. And, unfortunately, at my age, sleep is a necessity. When I was 24, burning both ends of the candle [...]
Reality Check
Posted in Livestock, tagged farming mistakes and foibles on June 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Dead chickens, loose dogs, fence climbing goats and a kick in the head from a sheep. Those events pretty much summarize our day. First, our livestock guardian dogs, who did so well with the chickens yesterday, apparently thought they were intruders this morning when they wandered out of their night coops. The dogs in one [...]
The No Fun Spring Rages On
Posted in Livestock, tagged farming mistakes and foibles, pastured chicken on May 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
While much of America has spent the Spring of 2011 wrestling with tornadoes, here in the burb our natural disaster is predation. The predator storm is still churning and touched down again over the weekend, with devastating results. B and I went to Florida for for a few days to attend a memorial service for [...]
The Storm After the Calm
Posted in Family Life, tagged farming mistakes and foibles, livestock on May 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
B and I returned home today from a fantastic weekend getaway to Kentucky. We drove to Lexington on Friday. Our day took a little longer than planned, because about 30 miles up the road, I realized neither Brittan nor I had picked up our Derby tickets. We had awesome reserved seats for the Kentucky Derby [...]
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Posted in Family Life, tagged farming mistakes and foibles, Nigerian Dwarf Goats, pastured chicken on March 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
First, my apologies to Irving Stone, for taking liberties with the title of his novel, to Hollywoood for playing off a classic Charlton Heston flick, and to Michelangelo because this post has absolutely nothing to do with him or with his life. Now that we have that out of the way: I am emotionally drained [...]
Prank or Peta wannabe?
Posted in Livestock, tagged farming mistakes and foibles, pastured rabbits on March 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last evening when we went out to the farm to collect eggs and shut up the chickens for the night, we got a bit of an annoying surprise. Oh, the chickens were fine. As a matter of fact, none of them had escaped. That’s pretty rare. Usually I have twenty five or thirty following me [...]
