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Christmas Dinner on the Porch 71 degrees
Those bare stumps are our attempt to over winter peppers in the greenhouse
Moving things into the greenhouse for winter. Some will get moved into an enclosure in the shop for more protection.
We hatched 2 chicks from our flock.... 1 survived.
Spilanthes growing in a cold frame to try overwintering them
Dead Tree on House 9-26-21
Still harvesting Patty Pan, Jalapeño, Marconi Rossa, Jimmy Nardello and Long Purple Beans 9-25-219-25-21
Tulsi, Spilanthes, Birdhouse Gord along greenhouse rock path 9-21-21
Porch Progress 9-12-21
4th year Mortgage Steaks
New Tinctures
Fennel Flowers
7-18-21
7-18-21
4th Year Mortgage Lifter / Beef Steak Cross
Market Display 7-10-21
Trail Art
Basil, Cucumber an Onion 7-1-21
The Rhino Room Drum Kit
The Rhino Room - camping, drumming, art party spot
Tom Thumb Lettuce
Market Display 7-1-21
Tomato, Onion, Yarow in the path, Cayanne, Pickling Cucumbers
Wild Blackberry 7-1-21
Nasturtium Tire
Milkweed in the Tree Swales
Butternut, Jimmy Nardello, Green Pepper, Hillbilly Tomato 7-1-21
The Truck Bed
Garlic Flower in the Tree Swales
Basil, Tomato, Onion, Cucumber, butternuts & Green Peppers 6-18-21
The Corner Pocket - Strawberry, Chamomile, Garlic, Bunching Onion, Hyssop, Mitsuba, Perennial Kale, Egyptian Walking Onion, Perennial Fennel, Garlic Chives, Arnica & Echinacea
Yarrow, Calendula, Mint & St John's Wort on the left .... 6-18-21
Elephant Garlic Harvest 6-17-21
Black Raspberry ! 6-13-21
2nd harvest of Garlic Scapes
black raspberry and sassafras
Greenhouse to tool shed path Sassafras, Black Raspberry and Strawberry 6-7-21
Greenhouse tomatoes planted - Bumblebees and Yellow Gooseberries 6-7-21
The Wedding Party
The Dye Garden 6-1-21
Market Strawberries and Sour Cherries 5-29-21
yummy strawberries
Strawberries, Garlic, Chamomile in The Corner Pocket 5-21-21
View of the Stage from the Fire Pit @ "The Living Room" 5-12-21
View from the stage at "The Living Room" 5-12-21
Native Fruit an Nut Tree Swales 5-12-21
Native Fruit & Nut Tree Swales 5-2-21
Thornless blackberry flowers 5-2-21
Zynga discussing philosophy with an octopus
Claw gloves spreading hay to plant onion sets 4-26-21
ground cover to cover our walking paths 4-26-21
Our oldest Strawberry patch is full of Flowers 4-12-21
Garlic in our perennial "corner pocket" area 4-7-21
Rutted farm road regraded smoothed and seeded with grass. 4-6-21
The Brady Bunch - 6 new lil' chicks 4-3-21
Zynga morns the loss of Kid Mountain which has been turned into raised rows
Ozrak Beauty Strawberries 4-3-21
Starting our seeds in soil blocks this year. no plastic. :~)
Moving our new top soil into the "The River" 3-22-21
3-21-21 Pulled the plastic off of the Living Room Carpet (future chamomile patch) We'll let things srout for a couple weeks and then replace the plastic to kill it for a month..pull off the plastic again and then plant our Chamomile
lettuce, strawberry, and nasturtium starting in the PVC tubes perennials starting in random pots 3-6-21
Pond airator doing it's job so far 2-19-21
Wonderlamd Paths
Driveway 2-19-21
Snow Buddha 2-19-21
2-19-21
Ice Storm on the bean trellis 2-11-21
72 hole vertical grow setup for strawberry and lettuce , nasturtium etc 1-10-21
The Living Room Carpet. We're planting that whole section with Roman Chamomile this spring.
Garden of the Sun has been totally stripped of the weeds,... again
Perennial Kale 1-8-21
Chickens are scratching and pooping on our garden area until Februrary Then we're adding that pile of top soil and those rolls of hay 1-8-21
Greenhouse inside the shop with some grow lights and heat for the Tropical plants we shouldn't be trying to grow here 1-8-21
Art, the scarecrow, had a really rough 2020 but he's back on the job... looking a little haggard
1st Garlic sighting 1-7-21
River 2 & Rivers End are fully hayed 1-4-21
99% of the decking for the porch is done
random pics 2020
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Chickens fertilizing and cultivating the garden for the winter 11-21-20
The Rhino Room Campsite 11-11-20
New Friends
Yellow Tomato Jackolantern Face
Sacco & Vanzetti pose next to the new Fire Pit and the freshly prepared Living Room Carpet 10-22-20
Asparagus on the left Dye Garden on the right 8-31-20
Naturescaping the Dye Garden & Sassyberry Patch 8-31-20
Rural King Sub Soiler and Carry All
Dye Garden on the left on the Asparagus right 8-31-20
Jimmy Nardello is Back!
Chop an Drop Yarrow Leaf in the main garden to help pull nutrients up and build soil
Winter Squash and volunteer Sorghum 8-31-20
the souther berry swales 8-31-20
Mortgage Lifter and BeefSteak Tomatoes hybrid project
Greenhouse 8-31-20
1 mess of carrots 8-31-20
Spilanthes and Echinacea
the river 8-30-20
the river 8-30-20
100 foot wall of Mountaineer 1/2 Runners
Baby Aloe Vera Plants 8-30-20
Field of Spilanthes 8-30-20
Keyline Plowing the Berry Swales with the New Tractor 8-24-20
Keyline Plowied Tree Swales 8-24-20
Keyline Plowing the Tree Swales with the New Tractor 8-24-20
Siamese Patty Pan Butterfly Squash
7 new chicks 4 Welsumers and 3 Badasses
Relaxation Station
Strawberries and perennials
Spilanthes & Echinacea
Spilanthes & Echinacea
Seed development. Crossing Beef Steak and Mortgage Lifters near a Walnut tree.
Gravity fed water transfer from 4000 gallon collection tank to field tanks.
Indeterminate tomatoes and hot peppers in the greenhouse 8-8-20
Solar panel for greenhouse lights, compost tea tank and water tank.
4000 gallons of rain water collection covered by tarp & Mountaineer 1/2 Runners
Happy Garlic Face 8-7-20
Metcalfe County Farmers Market 5-22-20
The Corner Pocket full of Strawberries, Garlic, Bunching Onions and various perennials that have not yet sprouted. 5-7-20
Last Frost was supposed to be 3 weeks ago But we're ready for the predicted 29 degrees that's coming tomorrow 5-6-20
Elephant Couch 4-30-20
Drive Through Farmers Market in Burkesville 5-2-20
Honey Boy Guarding the Flock
Covid-19 Farmers Market Set Up in Edmonton 4-17-20
Covid-19 Farmers Market Set Up in Edmonton 4-17-20
Farmers Market Ninjas in Edmonton 4-17-20
Lumber Jacker 4-9-20
Planted: Bunching Onion, Prickly Pear, Anise Hyssop, Rhubarb, Kaleidiscope Kale, Chives, Perpetual Fennel, Arnica
Prepared to Plant: Bunching Onion, Prickly Pear, Anise Hyssop, Rhubarb, Kaleidiscope Kale, Chives, Perpetual Fennel, Arnica
Freshly uncoverd section of the Corner Pocket
Red Buds a poppin;
overview: 4-4-20
Seeds a startin: 4-4-20
Inside Out 4-2-20
Elderberry Trees for sale $8
no foolin' Shopping Fashion 4-1-20
1st bouquet of Spring! 3-31-20
Morels about 25ft away from the back of the house. 3-27-20
Mail and package intake system. 1 box for each day. a week later we can open them.
Greenhouse exterior finally finished 3-18-20
Almost there. We got this plastic up right before a tornado watch... it survived, no damage. 3-12-20
New Chicks on the block L-to-R: Henny Penny, Honey Boy, Jackson, Dick and Lucile Bawl
Art, our Scarecrow, needs some serious surgery :~)
Still trying to get the greenhouse functional... almost, ready for plastic 3-5-20
Spike the injured Chick likes to garden for worms 2-29-20
Spike helps Fertilizing Blueberries while Zynga guards the workers
Strawberys and 4 kinds of Garlic in the Corner Pocket 2-23-20
Our new Favorite Tool the Claw Gloves - great for making planting rows in deep hay 2-23-20
Greenhouse posts leveled and arches inserted 2-22-20
New Greenhouse going up 2-17-20
Our New Greenhouse arrives 2-9-20
Tomato trellis set up and garden rows marked by putting sawdust down on the paths. 2-2-20
Cold Chickens 1-20-20
Our winter lettice 1-12-20
Saw Dust & woodchip paths in the River 1-8-20
Garden of the Sun - with fresh hay, saw dust and woodchips 1-8-20
Chickens ; Goldie Hawwwn, Punky Rooster, Spike Lee, Spike Jones, Sid Vicious and Perilla
Garlic is coming up everywhere it was planted 1-6-20
The River is covered with new hay & awaits wood chip paths 1-2-20
more random '19
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Gianni, Chappell, Zynga Kitty & the Chicks 12-18-19
our Chistmas tree
our Chistmas tree
Edmonton Christmas Parade float for Barmlot Theaters Every Christmas Story Ever Told 12-14-19
Real Mistletoe, Pine and Honeysuckle wreathes for sale at the Barnlot Theater Lobby
Our 1st eggs! 12-12-19
Zynga on Field Duty, Deer & Hawks be damned 12-10-19
Chickens 1st snow and full day below zero 11-12-19
over wintering Tumeric 11-12-19
Winterizing the Chicken Coop 10-31-19
Side Porch Phase 1 complete 10-28-19
in the Corner Pocket: strawberries in foreground. Garlic planted under the fresh hay: Elephant, Music, Island Rocambole, Metchi and Walking Onion 10-26-19
New leach line put in 10-25-19
Elephant Garlic planted underneath the row of fresh hay 10-25-19
All berry swales are getting weeded and wood chipped 10-24-19
Plastic Moved in the Corner Pocket to open space for Garlic planting 10-24-19
100x3 Garlic Bed - Inchellium Red, Chesnook Red & Silver/White topped with straw and side dressed with wood chips 10-23-19
Cooking Sorghum at The Barn @ Node 10-22-19
Squeezing Sorghum at The Barn @ Node 10-22-19
Puff Ball Mushrooms from the Far Out Field (next to a quarter) 10-18-19
Round Hay Bails are Heavy - Torn Calf Muscle 10-18-19
Chicken Moving Day, out to the sorghum field they go 10-18-19
Guinea's have a new home away from the chickens 10-18-19
onstruction begins on the side porch 10-18-19
3x100 bed for Garlic. fresly topped with well composted sawdust 10-16-19
Loose Plans for the side porch 10-14-19
Leveled Building Pad for the GreenBarn 10-14-19
random pics 2019
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Positioned amid the blueberry, blackberriy and raspberry swales with croppy crops just across the lane.
Positioned amid the blueberry, blackberriy and raspberry swales with croppy crops just across the lane.
Leveling begins on a building site for the Barn/GreenHouse/Processing Station and future WWOOFer quarters. 11-14-19
Last Farmers Market of the season. 10-12-19
!st frost warning is tomorrow night 10-11-9
Mowed the edge of the River and the former Squash row. Prepping for Garlic planting. 10-11-9
Find 3 Waldo's 10-11-9
Cut Flower Garden Prep for fall bulb planting 10-8-19
Fresh Mulch, Seasoned Mulch and Almost Dirt Mulch with Blueberry and Nasturtium in the foreground 10-6-19
Greenhouse,Processing Space, WWOOFER Quarters, Tracctor Shed and Outdoor Kitchen
Acquired some Cold Frames from a neighbor for season extended small salad crops and seed starting 10-6-19
4 out 5 Guinea's prefer to roost in the tree 10-2-19
Sorghum Cane ready to chop 9-30-19
Sorghum Grain Drying 9-29-19
Wormy Chestnut clean up 2nd year of eliminating all chestnuts from the property to break the worm cycle so we can eventually eat our Chestnuts.
Sorghum and beans ready to harvest, we will be cooking molasses next week at the Barn at Node
The Guinea's are rascist against all the brown based birds.
Punky Rooster, Nancy Sinatra, Goldie Hawn, Spike Jones 9-26-19
Mulch added to Elderberry row 9-20-19
Mulching Blueberry and Elderberry rows 9-20-19
Pulled weeds added green manure and buried Diakon seeds while mulching Blueberry and Elderberry rows 9-20-19
Purple Beans on the the cucumber trellis
The Sorghum is ready to strip & top 9-20-19
Basil seeding and Cayenne just getting started 9-20-19
sagging trellis line on the Early Girls 9-20-19
Fence line needs to be better secured to the Tposts, all of our trellis lines hae sagged significantly or fallen completly.
high tensil electric fence line used for trellising tomatos - FAIL
Striped Romans, Paprika & Purple Bumble Bee's
1st year Asparagus in front of 5 ricks of firewood for winter. 9-20-19
The Mortgage Lifter / Beefsteaks with Birdhouse Gord ground cover 9-20-19
Outhouse upgraded with a couple walls & roof 9-19-19
Stuffed red peppers on a bed of baked kale 8-30-19
Tomato Face
Rows of Planted Sorghum and 1/2 Runner Beans --- 8-15-19
Sorghum volunteers have taken over the onion and potato field --- 8-15-19
The Croppy River --- 8-15-19
Tomatoes have completely outgrown the 6 ft trellis system --- 8-15-19
Tuscan Kale, tomatoes and hardly any weeds --- 8-15-19
Tomatoes, peppers, beans and volunteer sorghum --- 8-15-19
Nasturtium, paprika peppers, Striped Roman tomatoes, black crowder peas, gooseberry tomatoes .....
A strawberry patch with Diakon radish and volunteer melons and butternuts --- 8-15-19
Nasturtium, purple basil, tomatoes.....
Late started Mortgage Lifter tomatoes
Spilanthes and Echinacea as a traffic island --- 8-15-19
Peppers, Diakon radish and tomato volunteers.
Art sits guard on the chickens
Volunteer Borage in the middle of our Paprika Peppers 7-21-19
Yellow squash, volunteer sorghum, tomatos
The hay mulch, no till method has given us A LOT of volulunteer plants, tomatos, cucumbers, melons, borage and the biggest sorghum I've ever seen.
At war with the raccons. We've lost a chicken and 6 guineas due to nightly raids. They are malicious little bastards. last night they showed us what they thought of our freshly errected electric poultry fence. 7-21-19
Moving our mobile chicken coop into it's 1st location 7-15-19
Freshly transplanted Mortgage Lifter and Beef Steak Tomatoes 7-11-19
The hay mulch has been a very effective weed barrier.
Cucumbers, Tuscan Kale, Tomatoes, Yarrow 7-11-19
Volunteer Sorghum and Tomatoes in the Potato and Onion area.
The hay mulch has been a very effective weed barrier.
Peppers, Nasturtium, Tomatoes, Yarrow 7-11-19
Squash, Tomaroes etc 7-11-19
5 Kinds of Garlic drying. Elephant, Music, Metechi, Inchellum Red and Chesnook Red. Siliver Whites are still in the field for a few more weeks. 7-6-19
Gerald visits 7-5-19
Our 1st day at market this season 7-5-19
Celebrating that we're not British with a multi color bonfire 7-4-19
Baby Chicks Move into their Coop 7-4-19
Guinni's move to there own cage outside 6-30-19
Chicks & Guinni's 6-23-19
Establishing perennial kitchen herbs
1 of 3 strawberry beds
Some areas that we planted have very poor drainage. We have had an incredible amount of rain.
A 1 day old bean sprout that's already bigger than the sorghum it's suppose to climb. 6-23-19
Garlic that's ready to harvest but too wet to harvest. Yarrow in the background. 6-23-19
Onions & Potatoes 6-23-19
Cucumbers, seed lettuce, tuscan kale, purple kale, yarrow and tomato
We Picked Up a Buncha Chicks to Work the Farm 6-1419
Zynga Welcomes You to the Relaxation Station
The Living Room for Firefly Viewing 6-4-19
Future Crop Eatin Burrito Filling 6-2-19
Garlic Scape Harvest 5-29-19
Rodger and Peter - field crew
Mulberry Picker 5-27-19
Tarp Harvesting Mulberry 5-24-19
Tarp Harvesting Mulberry 5-24-19
the Water Buffalo
the 1st ripe Blueberries 5-23-19
Vew from the truck on water tranfer day 5-21-19
Fresh harvested young Sassafras Leaves for making Gumbo Filé 5-20-19
Baby Nasturtiums between Blueberry Plants 6-16-19
CatTail Harvest 5-16-19
CatTail Harvest 5-16-19
Cucumber Fence in Front of Rows of Lettuce 5-14-19
1st Garlic Scapes of the Year 5-14-19
Some Potato Rows in the Hay 5-14-19
Some Onion Rows in the Hay 5-14-19
Stevia Rows Seeded Next To Garlic 5-1-19
Nasturtium Tire 5-1-19
Echinacea Triangle 5-1-19
Cucumber, Lettuce an Spinach Seeded 5-1-19
Edging Seed Lines Through the Hay 4-30-19
25 Early Glow Strawberries planted 4-25-19
25 Seascape Strawberries planted 4-25-19
25 Sparkle Strawberries planted 4-25-19
25 Mary Washington Asparagus planted 4-24-19
25 Purple Passion Asparagus planted 4-24-19
Spring Water 4-24-19
Spring Flowers
Zinga Cleans up after the PotLuck
Nasturtium Tire Seat at the Fire Pit 4-17-19
Oveview at the 1st water transfer of the year 4-15-19
Red Marconi Sweet Pepper in a Jug 4-9-19
Early Girl tomatoes in individual greenhouses 4-3-19
the sun sets on our tree planting project 3-27-19
Tree planting crew 3-23-19
The auger broke down with a hundred holes left to dig.so we had to finish it the old fashioned way.
planting trees on the downside of our hay swales
the ever changing tree planting map
Restocking Bass adding some minnows and a couple of grass carp 3-21-19
Augering holes for hundreds of trees. 3-15-19
Future long Bus/RV parking
transplanting Spinach starts 3-10-19
Prepping the 1st River plantings Tom Thumb Lettuce, Mache and Spinach 3-10-19
Zinga Kitty Kitty watches us setup rows in the River.
Starting to mark off rows in the River 3-8-19
Another layer of hay added to the Garden of the Sun 3-8-19
Fresh seeds to the rescue 3-8-19
Algae starting to form on the sides of the pond 3-7-19
Over winter station positioned under a skylight in the shop 3-5-19
Come out to see WAFers Ally as Elly May and Gianni as Mr Dresydale
Garlic - Elephant, Inchellium Red, Music - 3-1-19
Garlic - Chesnook Red, Silver White, Metechi - 3-1-19
3 Terrorists :~) Bagging their heads to retain moisture and heat to encourage more rapid colonization of the log 2-27-19
Hot Shake Mushroom Totems - should fruit when it's too hot for the other Shitake... in about 2 years... 2-27-19
Layer of Hot Shitake Sawdust Mushroom Spore and a layer of log 2-27-19
Oak Logs for Shitake Mushroom Totem Poles 2-26-19
Couch in the woods 2-8-19
digging up potting soil from the center of a rotten stump 2-2-19
The end of using heavy black plastic as no till ground cover. It does not hold up to a full season without disintegrating.
No till, but littering plastic bits everywhere
The end of using heavy black plastic as ground cover. It does not hold up to a full season without disintegrating.
The final straw for no till plastic in this 1 straw revolution
Mushroom logs placed in the woods 1-4-19
We're now part of the Kentucky Proud program
random pics 2018
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FUTURE campsite at the Octopus Forest 12-28-18
Octopus Forest 12-28-18
Octopus Forest 12-28-18
Octopus Forest 12-28-18
FUTURE campsite at The Pont 12-25-18
What a beautifull place to dump trash... massive debris field slated for clean up12-15-18
The Point - babbling creek in surround sound 12-15-18
the creek 12-25-18
Elephant Rides along the creek 12-25-18
Mossy Tongue in the woods 12-22-18
Echinacea Triangle covered with a thick layer of hay for mulch, ground cover and weed abatement
Market Crop section of The River covered with a very thick layer of hay 12-18-18
winter woodland trails 11-28-18
6 shots 4 arrows LOST no hits.... crap
Archery Range Set Up11-18-18
baby Metechi Garlics 11-8-18
The exterior fence is also baited with peanut butter smashed between tin foil strips to give the deer a good taste of electricity :~)
berry swales and 3-d fences
2 short electric fences roughly 4ft apart. If a deer jumps the outside they'll land on the inner fence.
3-d solar electric fence errected to protect the berries from deer nibbles 11-7-18
11-6-18 The LAST PVC Greenhouse. Destroyed by a tornado warning. The greenhouse was lifted up atleast 3ft off its rebar supports and most poles were broken and scattered. This was the 4th version of this greenhouse recreated from the pvc structure that survived winters before we moved to this super windy ridge line. :~(
Berry swales and hay 10-30-18
Berry swale building 10-30-18
fall woodland trail 10-30-18
10-27-18
Hay rolls positioned by the fruit & nut contour lines for swale buildingt 10-24-18
Some sections are chopped by hand as an experiment 10-24-18
After tossing our cover crop seed the sorghum fields are mowed 10-24-18
Our Hay, positioned for mulching and swale building 10-23-18
Berry Swale building 10-20-18
Berry Swale building 10-20-18
Drilling and Plugging 10-15-18
Mushroom Log Drilling Tools
Elephant, Music and Inchelium Red Garlic rows
Chesnok Red, Silver White and Metechi Garlic rows
Stirrup Hoe and Broad Forked Garlic patch 10-9-18
Baby on board 10-5-18
Feeding crushed sorghum cane to our neighbors cows 9-28-18
Cooking Mollasses the hard slow way 9-29-18
Sorghum Seed heads out to dry 9-28-18
Sorghum cane ready for transport to our neighbors mill. 9-27-18
Sorghum stripped of its leaves for harvest 9-26-18
Sorghum stripped of its leaves for harvest 9-26-18
Contour Berry Lines 9-22-18
Harvestable Sorghum 9-22-18
Sorghum cover crop 9-22-18
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O'Neal Blueberry about to go in the ground
Top soil, hay mulch and berry plants
Contour lines for planting the berries
89 Blueberry, Blackberry and Raspberry plants 9-14-18
Tomato Face
WAF @ the Market 2018
The River 9-3-18
Tomato Face
Meet Art the Scarecrow, he owns the place ;~)
Spring 2018 Property Map of the Future.Swales Trails and Stage oh my
Celebrate Hike Naked Day @ Wild Art Farm ~ June 21st
The No Till River flows around the bend. 7/28/18
Find Waldo. cherry tomatoes, corn, cucumbers, squash, sassafras, blueberry and...
Weighing down the front of Rodger 7/22/18
Hail Storm 7/20/18
Our "New" Tractor,: Rodger, a Kubota B1700
Teenage Mortgage Lifters and Beef Steaks Sorghum Cover Crop in Background
Diakon and Grape Tomatoes in front of the 1st section of Sorghum & Beans
40x100 of Sorghum as a cover crop
The Echinacea Triangle center planted and outer covered
Rain Water Irrigation Transfer
The River of Black Plastic Flows Down the Field - July
Hay Daze
Hay on the Horizon
The Hay Crew Heads Out To the Field
Peter, Stan & Francine
