Monthly Archives: June 2015

Finding Our Own Farm

We spent a long weekend looking at properties with which we could work to have a proper (our own definition, not the socially accepted interpretation) farm for our girls. We looked at quite a few properties.  Two full days worth … Continue reading

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Adickes Tuesday Run

That is what it felt like.  Some kind of marathon which started with a commute early in the morning to an office, and ended with the moon late in the evening on a farm. The Three Sisters planting is really … Continue reading

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An Unexpected Monday

Life has been a roller coaster the last few weeks.  For various reasons, on Monday it involved  a trip down to Faribault, and a visit to the kid’s Uncle Jamie’s, and then a few hours of swimming at Hunts Lake … Continue reading

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Evening At Pasture Adickes Farm

Last night we got in a good solid two and a half hours in the evening, ahead of the rain, and the garden there is really looking nice.  First, we went through the garden and picked rocks and bits of … Continue reading

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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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Trying To Get Caught Up

On Sunday, this is what the Ness Farm looked like when we showed up.   Made me cringe.  Patti had been here a few times since I last had, weeding in the onions.  I had not mowed here in two weeks.  … Continue reading

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Tea Herbs

Just one of the things we do, and it starts in earnest when the warm weather hits.  The picture above is Chocolate mint, which is the strongest of the mints we grow. This is apple mint, and the first year … Continue reading

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First Big Harvest

It is the time of season where we get garlic scapes.  Not the first greens of the year, but by far, the most wonderful.  Really, only those who grow hardneck garlic know how wonderful these are.  Buttery garlic taste, asparagus … Continue reading

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Maintenance & Prepwork For Sweet Potatoes

Yeah, trying sweet potatoes this year.  Have meant to for a while, but the amount of work was beyond me physically for a few years.  So, it was that, and some general maintenance on what is in the ground already … Continue reading

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Pretty Much Done

I worked from dinner to dark on Friday, dawn to dusk on Saturday, and tried to work in wet clay after a rain on Sunday.  The size of the garden is what it is.  I am not going to try … Continue reading

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