The last tree (0)
8/29/10 •
Working little by little, in the evenings and early mornings, I managed to clear 60 acres of volunteer cedars which had moved into the eastern two thirds of Two Mile Ranch. My estimates may be off. At first look, I predicted 300 trees. As I began to work with many of them, what looked like [...]
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Habitat restoration and invasive control (0)
8/25/10 •
While under my watch here at Two Mile, I’ve not done much to control the invasive cedar trees that move into prairie and pastures if not regularly mowed, grazed, or burned. This year is the year to do it, and this week is the week to get it done. Actually, that first line has some [...]
Tin Roof! Rusted. (not) (2)
8/17/10 •
The dogtrot at Two Mile has a new roof over the breezeway that joins the two cabins and makes the breeze way. The roof line of the dogtrot was one I tinkered with during the initial design. The original design, and one often favored in traditional dogtrots is a single unified roof line. In my [...]
Smarter than your average duck (0)
8/12/10 •
Today was a big day for the 8 week old ducks: they went to the pond. They moved into the duck pen from the brooding room in the barn earlier in the week after this morning, before I began reviewing graduate student work, I opened the pen and had the adult ducks lead them to [...]
My First Tractor Published (0)
8/09/10 •
I am very humbled to include a blog post from this site in Jerry Apps’ compilation of stories about farmer’s first loves. My First Tractor: Stories of Farmers and Their First Love appears in many online book sellers this week and includes work by Michael Perry, Bob Artley, Roger Welsch, Bob Feller, Ben Logan, Gwen [...]
In which Zinger goes boating, and I catch the wrong fish (0)
8/05/10 •
From September 2002 through August 2003, I turned a residential, three stall garage into a boat shop and built my second boat. The ZenBasser is a 16 foot Garvey which I modified the plans and added raised decking and enclosed compartments to build it in the style of a bass boat. I purchased the plans [...]
Have I got a hill for this (0)
8/02/10 •
I receive Sunset Magazine and the cover this month is this 8 x 16 cabin called the Signal Shed, built for under $60k including a small lot in Oregon. The plans and more information are available here at Sunset or here at www.signal-shed.com. This would make a nice day cabin and work space for visiting [...]
As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly… (0)
6/30/10 •
The scene was bucolic, pastoral, and very much small farm. I have written about building poultry pens in the 1940′s barn, converting what was left of stalls into poultry wire enclosed pens for the meat chickens, the turkeys, and a separate brooding room. The brooding room is now home to 6 ducks and two geese. [...]
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8/29/10 •
The last tree8/25/10 •
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5/29/10 •
A Patriotic Post for Memorial Day3/05/10 •
Sites I read: Hunter Angler Gardener Cook2/28/10 •
Five books for a beginning small farmer
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Smarter than your average duck6/30/10 •
As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly…6/14/10 •
Building a turkey pen in the barn
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8/17/10 •
Tin Roof! Rusted. (not)8/09/10 •
My First Tractor Published8/05/10 •
In which Zinger goes boating, and I catch the wrong fish
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