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On Friday, December 1, 2017 we decided to have a large bay tree cut back for two purposes.  First, the fire department said it was too close to the house with branches hanging over the roof.  Second, we needed more … Continue reading →

The redwood and wine barrel fence is done!  The spider webs inside the wine barrel rings glitter in the sun!  The next step is building taller doors to keep out the local bobcat.  This is a safe space for the … Continue reading →

A big December/January project is to finally build the retaining wall next to the chicken coop.  The whole hillside was dug out in December 2005 to expand the chicken coop, and retaining wall blocks were purchased used on craigslist.org about … Continue reading →

The garden is looking good with lots of wood chips added, about 12 inches thick. The last of the soil in the walkways was dug out on Thanksgiving by farmhand Will Burke. Cardboard is laid out for sheet mulching now … Continue reading →

Today, we were able to get the roof of the horse stall correctly sloped by jacking up the center beam three inches and adding support.  The roof doesn’t sag toward the end anymore, and hopefully it will not leak in … Continue reading →

Improvements are slowly being made to different areas of the farm, depending on what materials we find/recycle and the timing of the project. When we first moved in, the horse stall was just a shell of a structure.  Improvements were … Continue reading →

The garden is coming along beautifully!  Today it is raining, so I’m very glad I built two more planter beds last weekend.  I had to use thinner branches for these, and it does add variety to have bigger trunks and … Continue reading →

Today, we were able to build the largest planter bed in the garden.  A few weeks ago, a friend cut down 4 small Black Locust trees on a neighbor’s property.  This provided enough material for another bed. It took four … Continue reading →

The Garden Shed got a make over today with new siding to cover the old plywood and rat holes.  Now, it has to be primed, pained, and trimmed out with new trim.  Another project almost done before winter.

In order to protect the chickens from a bobcat that walks around during the day, I wanted to raise the redwood fence around their outdoor run.  The idea came to make an artsy fence and continue the spider web motif … Continue reading →