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2024 End of Year Notes
Our first full year of farming was successful on several fronts. We got things done, and we learned a lot!
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State of The Project; Spring 2024
It was a dark and rainy day in Chimacum. Most of the growers around here are hoping for a little bit of drier weather so we can get to prepping our soil beds and rows and get things growing. But it was a wet April last year and so far looks like we’re getting a…
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Implementation
Moving from concept to reality using implements. When we’re driving around with our horses we will frequently get the question, “what are you doing with them?” We explain that we’re farming with them but then I sometimes notice a look on the faces that makes me wonder if people even know what that means. Maybe…
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Winter workhorse training
It can be a challenge to keep horses in training during the winter. But yesterday we hitched John and Jim to the forecart with the little utility trailer behind. Of course everything looks different when covered in snow so around each corner we had to stop and let them figure things out. We went around…
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Climate news: 2023 was HOT!
Significant climate-related news has been reported early in 2024 and has received fairly good coverage in the media despite all the usual distractions. The big story is that 2023 was the hottest year on record by an exceedingly wide margin. Spoiler alert: its a good news/ bad news situation. The bad news is that extreme…
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Meeting the Boys
It doesn’t make much sense for two sixty-somethings to adopt a team of two young draft horses. But that’s what we did in the summer of 2022. This post is a bit of the beginning part of the story . And the start of an explanation of how something that sounds so crazy can feel…
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And so it begins…
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