Greenhouse: A Baby Step
The greenhouse is an ambitious project – it is an entire building you know. So as a baby step we are going to build a couple of cold frames, basically mini-greenhouses. We aren’t going to use any of the recycled…
How to: Protecting a Log Splitter
Between the last few hurricanes and storms there are a lot of fallen trees, and the wood burning stove is our primary source of heat during the winter, so splitting wood is a pretty regular activity around here. No matter…
The Shop
One of the most exciting things about moving out of the city is space. Our apartment is pretty luxurious by New York standards, a two bedroom at around 1200 square feet. Its enough space to so that our coffee table…
How to: Making a Lamp and Felt Shade
When we originally toured our house with the real estate broker the dining room was lit by a magnificent chandelier of deer antlers. The lamp was unfortunately an heirloom and explicitly excluded from the sale in our purchase contract. So,…
Christmas
Holidays are back at the Farm and in full effect. My favorite is our collection of vintage christmas bulbs, I’m sure they are colored with the most toxic substances known to man but they look nice. For more…
Rat Trouble
As the weather has gotten cold we’ve had set up the Guinea’s for the winter. We’ve added a heat lamp to the coop, a water heater, and have been stocking the feeder with a lot more food since they aren’t…
Garlic
While most of our garden was devastated by bunnies this year, our garlic survived – and thrived. We planted it last September, covering it in old leaves, and it poked through early spring. We ate the scapes at the height…
Picket fence and a new garden plan
This year the garden was devastated by rabbits. Within a 48 hour period they wiped out our brussels, spinach, carrots, broccoli, swiss chard, pole beans and snap peas – leaving only our garlic, arugula (no idea why), and onions. The…
Guinea Eggs
We knew they laid eggs, but last year the Guineas didn’t survive long enough to mature to the point that they actually produced eggs. This year they started laying them right around the 4th of July. The flock of 18…
They are still alive
This year they are surviving. We had a little attrition after we first released them, a few evenings some of them weren’t smart (or scared) enough to come into the coop and didn’t survive the night, but we have had…