Dust Bowl Lessons
Posted: 22 November 2009 – 3:18 pm
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.
News Flash
Posted: 19 November 2009 – 11:54 pmOkay… 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.
Trimming Trees
Posted: 8 November 2009 – 11:45 pm
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.
Gardening Manures
Posted: 7 November 2009 – 8:48 pmHad 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.
Composting
Posted: 6 November 2009 – 11:01 pm
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.