Category Archives: Livestock

Harvesting With My Birthday Girl

So Claire turns the magic dozen tomorrow. She made a quick run with me out to the Adickes farm to cut the rest of the sunflowers, get them on racks in the greenhouse, as well as pick another bushel of … Continue reading

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Couple Of Weeks, Seed Saving, Grafts, Up North, Adickes Farm

Another one where I do apologize, but just going to be kind of raw, unedited, and cover a few weeks of work with mostly pictures. This is my daughter Claire showing a seed saving demo.  Renville Paste tomatoes.  Just slice, … Continue reading

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Working And Playing With Food

Last night we made a trip to The Adickes Farm northwest of Buffalo.  Just me and all the kids.  Patti was not having any luck getting work done at home with a houseful of them, and I needed to get … Continue reading

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The Last 10 Days

  I continue to be a delinquent as far as keeping not only things I am doing updated on the blog here, but getting the things I have in my mind, as things that need to be done, done. The … Continue reading

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The Open House

Today was the day at the Adickes farm for the event I had previously posted the flyer for here.  I was out there on Wednesday finishing cleaning up the garden, and then back there again early this morning with my … Continue reading

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In Case You Want To Tour One Our Gardens

They want me and my girls there to keep the gardens from being molested or trampled, and to answer any gardening/growing/seed saving questions people might have.  So, from 10-2 me and the girls will be there.

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Getting There

Things are shaping up at the Ness farm.  The plants were still there under the prolific weeds and other than between days most of two rows of beans being eaten, and me having to replant them, it is looking good. … Continue reading

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So Much To Do

I spent Saturday and Sunday out at the two gardens I am doing with the Adickes family.  One is the (primarily) potato garden at Jerid’s dad’s place, and then the big garden at the Adickes family farm.  Patti and kids … Continue reading

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Trying 3 Sisters Style Planting ….. Again

Some years ago I gave it a try, without knowing more than the growing beans up cornstalks and covering the ground with squash vines.  It was a bit of a disaster. Higher hopes this time.  I have a strong stalked … Continue reading

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Chickens & Baskets

So, the weekend previous to this one, I potted up about 1500 tomatoes, peppers, and basil Well, you cannot see it really well in this pic, but above Phoebe’s head, and a bit to the left side (our left, not … Continue reading

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