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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

ready to sell beef

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For four years now we have been growing our little herd of Galloway cross cattle and experimenting with different pastures and processing, a...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

more good news

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For the first time in history wild plants with modified genes have been discovered in North America. This is exactly what opponents of gene ...
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what the?

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This post is going to fall under the "if you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention" addage. I am not sure how I stu...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

heritage barley trials

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This year, with the move and everything, I was only able to plant two very small plots of heritage grains. They are both barley varieties. T...

beautiful morning in the pasture

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I missed the best light this morning, it was just beautiful though. Quite chilly at 8C, but the cows were lounging; quietly chewing cud and ...
Monday, August 23, 2010

trusses on...almost

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We have one more day of work left to install the trusses. As you can see most of them are in place. Double hurricane straps will be installe...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

straw bale raising pictorial

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Here some pictures from this past weekend. The bale walls look  fairly wonky prior to the top plate going on. Once the top plate is installe...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

straw bale raising pending!

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Well, it looks as though everything will be in place for us to be able to have our "strawbale raising" party this weekend. Work is...
Monday, August 09, 2010

summer hail = plow down

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Almost all of our organic buckwheat was lost to hail in this one field. It is too bad, because I have a good market for buckwheat and this w...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010

summer 2010 crop tour - peas

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These are Certified Organic Peas. These peas were sown into this field with the hopes of being a clean crop that we could harvest. Worst cas...
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summer 2010 crop tour - oats

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A nice crop of organic oats for 2010. Actually, these oats will be considered "transitional" oats as the land that they are grown ...
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Tuesday, August 03, 2010

construction update end of july

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So here is where we were at with construction of our straw bale house at the end of July, 2010. As you can see the garage has been up for so...

time for a holiday

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Back in the beginning of July we had a chance to get away for a few days. The Boy had a volleyball camp in Jasper, Alberta and so we stayed ...

we're still farming too you know...

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Even though all of our efforts seem to be focused on building the new farm we still have farming activities ongoing. The cows have all calve...
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Monday, July 19, 2010

What the heck is going on?

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Well...where do I start? Not posting in a month with as busy as we are leaves me wondering how to even begin. Firstly, the weather has be ho...
Monday, June 14, 2010

June 14

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Gosh it has been eating at me that I haven't updated the blog for so long. I really enjoy my blogging, but you can probably understand t...
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Monday, April 26, 2010

Construction Update - April 26

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Not a whole lot has changed lately. I met with the guy who is performing the dirt work this morning. His name is Ed Budzinsky and is actuall...
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Auction notes

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I enjoy going to farm auctions. There is a very real excitement, or for lack of a better term "high" that comes when you bid on so...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

New Farm Construction - Day 3

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Just getting finished up on the rough shaping of the driveway and yard. Next will come the grader, packer and then finally the gravel. It is...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

New Farm Construction - Day 1

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Here is a quick video on what our property looks like after Day 1. Here is the Cat D6 dozer building the driveway. He is stripping the topso...
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Ok...time to update

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Sorry that it has been a while since I updated the blog. Here is what is happening. We have found our property and closed on the deal; we ha...
Thursday, March 04, 2010

still planning

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We are very busy in the planning stages of our new farm. Currently we are looking for suitable land in the area that we have selected and fo...
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Monday, February 22, 2010

planning underway

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Now that the farm has been sold we are very busy planning and discussing what we are going to build. There appears to be two different camps...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

farm is sold!

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Last night we had a visit from our realtor and he had an offer for us to consider...actually it was 2 offers! After two years of listing our...
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Friday, February 05, 2010

2010 Kentucky Derby

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Nothing to do with organic grain farming at all...just for fun. One of the things that I really enjoy is following along with the 3 year o...