Tag Archives: tree planting
A weekend of trees
It’s cold and windy and there are random tiny flakes of snow in the air, but we’ve just come in from planting the last of our mail order trees: three shagbark hickory and three buart nut. It’s been a week … Continue reading
Filed under Farm life, Growing food
Mail order trees
As I wrote last month, we recently purchased a batch of young fruit and nut trees for the hill directly behind our new house. Lots of aging apple trees here, and loads of invasive buckthorn which we are gradually eradicating. … Continue reading
Filed under Farm life, Growing food, The joy of recycling
Tree planting in spring
Tree planting has been a major focus for us since taking on the former berry farm where we now live. It’s funny, as our land has no shortage of trees, but there is nothing very remarkable about most of them. … Continue reading
Filed under Farm life, Growing food
Weekend work
It is November and still surprisingly warm, though we get cold blasts here and there. It was entirely warm enough to work outside this weekend, which is exactly what we did. Outdoor tasks become a bit of a race at … Continue reading
Weekend tallies
We knew there would be a lot of firsts this year and indeed they have been coming in rapid succession. The past two weekends have been hardworking family affairs, but a lot of fun I must say. Easter weekend was … Continue reading
Filed under Farm life, Raising children
