A show recently caught on PBS’s American Experience about the Dust Bowl of the 1930’s really brought home relevant thoughts about lessons perhaps lightly learned at the time. Perhaps we need a bit of a history lesson an revisit of what happened then due to bad farming practices.  Further, it is with some irony that one has to consider the big picture here, as the government stepped in with better practices and suggestions about limited scope in the 1930’s – since the 1970’s the say get big or get out.

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Okay… So I admit that I apparently suck.  I have gotten more then a little bit busy the last week or two and did not manage to keep up with the posting here, even though it is NaBloPoMo.  Well, I am still going strong over on mephistos and it is a good read.  However, even given my less that stellar performance of keeping things posted daily here on Traveller’s Haven Farms, I have more then enough to post about.  I am going to be doing something just a little different here though.  I have not completely worked out the target as of yet, but I am think along the lines of a post a week or two posts a week, maybe even three a week.  I think that is much more likely to be sustained, even doing it out through a year, then posting once a day for a month.  As soon as I get it completely figured out, you dear readers, will be the second group of people to know.  For now, note that I will have a good posting here in just a short bit.

In conjunction with that, there are a few things that I am hoping to get updated here on the site this weekend coming up.  As I get those done, I think I will come back here and check them off as a list type of thing and add to this post.  By the way, if you have suggestions shot, I am always open on that kind of thing.  Lastly, I am also looking for other sites of a sustainable green farm  type to link to from here, especially blogs, but not exclusively.

Spent the afternoon trimming trees and the like with my folks.  It was some leftover stuff from the infamous ice storm in this area of 2009 and just some stuff that needed to be done.  A couple of those were causing some issues with some structures and at least one was pushing a fence over as well.  Anyway, it was nice workout and an experience that reminded me much of my youth in a lot of ways.

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Had the question from a friend the other day about certain manures and I had to think and even looked one of them up in order to ensure I had the correct answers.  So the question is how come some manures are used on gardens and some manures are typically not.  The question was specifically what about cat or pig manures and there was a base assumption that chicken (or domestic fowl of any sort) was generally to hot with nitrogen to use readily.

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Over the years I have started more then my own fair share of compost piles on my own properties.  The basic concept is so simple and in reality anyone can do it.  Some of my greatest warm moments have come from the time or two that I have shown someone else how to set up their own compost pile and have helped them get it going.

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A few weeks back as I will sometimes to just for an afternoon of fun and entertainment I went to the local horse auction.  A few clarifications are in order there to begin.  First, I was only casually looking, having a half a thought depending on prices and such of maybe sometime in the very near future pursuit of a draft cross for jousting.  The local sale is not really all that local, but at about an hour away it is not bad of a drive.

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I do not do this kind of thing on any blog very often, but that means if I am plugging someone, especially for free you should take a note or two.  Hillside Heritage Farm is a small farm over in Garrard County Kentucky, not far from the river the same name located out on some rolling hills with an appropriate enough name.  It is owned by John and Dorothy Contini and I am proud to claim them, along with the three kids as friends.

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Monsanto is pretty much right on the bottom of muck pile as a way of really expressing just how I feel about them.  I have never been a very big fan of them anyway and you may recall my questioning of their Round Up product back some number of months ago in a blog.  Over the summer I learned of something else and it explained a couple of things to me and made me pretty much as ticked off as I can be.

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All around hero for farm and ranch folk is who he is. Baxter Black is best know probably known for his appearances on RFD-TV and NPR morning shows, but for those of you who do not know him, he is a cowboy poet these days by trade. In the past he has been cowboy, large animal vet, and a handful of other jobs here and there. His take on the cowboy life and even that of a rural America is not only genuine, but down to earth and so often presented with a humorous twist that will have you wrenching in laughter.

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So it is November…  Crisp cooler weather, frosts in the morning, great time for even more coffee consumption and taking it just a little bit easy.  Enjoying life a bit more fully.  It is also time the NaBloPoMo occurs.  By combining the two thoughts above I have decided it is the perfect time to relaunch this blog and get it to being an active site again.

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