Chronicles of a Dirt Farmer: To Everything a Season
Farming is life, one that is threefold – there is birth and the hope of new beginnings, the living in between, and death. Sometimes,...
Read Full StoryFarming is life, one that is threefold – there is birth and the hope of new beginnings, the living in between, and death. Sometimes,...
Read Full StoryThe pattern this year is that there is no pattern; the weather for this season has been downright schizophrenic. Hot, cold, rain, wind, sun...
Read Full StoryEach winter, before it gets too muddy, we load up the green frost fans onto our Bobcat, a somewhat precarious proposition, and then schlep...
Read Full StoryIf you build it, they will come. Barn owls, I mean. Gray boxes on tall steel poles, holes facing east, loom over many of...
Read Full StoryWant to save the bees? Plant a hedgerow. Say “hedgerow” to most folks and it conjures up an image of ancient English fields neatly bounded...
Read Full StoryThough we remain in yet another drought year, it has more or less rained when it was supposed to. The grass has grown, and...
Read Full StoryThe sheep are baaack! Though we remain in yet another drought year, it has more or less rained when it was supposed to, the...
Read Full StoryLivestock are neither cats nor Alsatian dogs nor fish nor hamsters, they don’t help you get through your day; they are not your companion...
Read Full StoryApparently my farming is earth shaking: a fault runs through my vineyards. In the wee hours of August 24, 2014, I woke as my...
Read Full StoryAs recent weekends have tempted us with suggestions of Spring, the vines are slowly beginning to wake. We’re delighted to bring back RSV Dirt...
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