Category Archives: Record

Politics, current events, and regulations that are effecting the small farmer today and tomorrow and even some of those from yesterday.

Planter Box – Palette

One weekend project from the one past was creation of a planter box from a palette. Here are my notes and comments along with a picture gallery of the construction/creation process. Continue reading

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Compost Pickup

I heard about an interested concept on NPR the other morning. Eco-Movement, a company based New Hampshire is offering a compost pickup service. They price it right and pick up your compostable waste just like the trash service. Awesome! Continue reading

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Springtime

As spring is upon us and so many folks move toward those spring cleaning chores in conjunction with new beginnings with gardens plowed and planted and often time a good deal of livestock is born, I was also moved here on the blog. I have done a refresh a lot of things… Continue reading

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Dust Bowl Lessons

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. Continue reading

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News Flash

Okay – so bottom line is even with NaBloPoMo I sucked. I failed miserably at getting a post in a day for an entire month. I got some other thoughts and ideas though… Look for them soon. Continue reading

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