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Tag Archives: Gardening
Farm Life: Culling the Herd
Farms, as domestication of all things wild that we find useful, have biological and cultural carrying capacities. Eventually, the fruits, vegetables, and livestock require harvesting. The fruits and vegetables you want to harvest when they are ripe. Leave them too … Continue reading
Farm Life: Fog (Haze) in August, Winter Forcast, 2021-22
This year’s Fog in August report is a little hazy, you could literally say. For the past few years, the confounding winter factor has been the temperature. We have had plenty of moisture, but warmer than usual temperatures. We ended … Continue reading
Dept. of Alternative Facts: Yellow Jacket Nests
Yellow jackets (n): type of wasp which builds nests and lives in tight, social groups; very defensive of their nests; stinger is not barbed, thus can aggressively attack threats to their nests with multiple stings September is yellow jacket hunting … Continue reading
Farm Life: Memorials
Back in the Spring, I received a couple of checks for my birthday. The Mrs. asked what I wanted to do with the birthday money. “Let’s go to the yard art place and look at some sculptures for the yard” … Continue reading
Farm Life: Spring is in the Air, and Winter 2020-21 Fog in August Wrap-Up
Spring, a time of renewal, beginnings, blooms, thawing out. In our part of the Appalachian Mountains, Spring arrived quickly, with 20F’s giving way to 70F’s in a few days. Now frost and sun dance, with days gaining in length. Time … Continue reading
From the Bookshelf: Farming While Black, Leah Penniman
Let’s start with a quiz to establish essential knowledge and philosophy for reading Mrs. Penniman’s “Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land” “Food Apartheid” is: a) a system of organizing one’s garden, pantry, and menu plans b) a system of … Continue reading
Farm Life: The Food Industrial Agricultural Complex
I will admit that I think of gardening in our culture as a solitary activity. For many households, this might be a solitary family unit, but more likely one member of the family who enjoys being outside, tending to some … Continue reading
Farm Life: First Cut
Now, I do wish to be clear that while working extra shifts at the hospital, we have had some time off. With physical distancing, we have been keeping ourselves busy with preparing the garden, and wrapping up some winter projects. … Continue reading
Farm Life: Time
In the country, we do not measure time by seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, years as some never-beginning and never-ending line. No, but by cycles. Dawn-day-dust-night. Phases of the moon. Season. Planting-weeding-harvesting-preserving. Rut-gestation-birth-survival-growth-death. With time, and practice, we develop routines … Continue reading
Farm Life: No Winter Report
I give up, April 1st, no joke. Winter is not coming this year… Usually about now, we would be taking the plow off from the tractor and storing the snow shovels for summer. We did that a month ago. Last … Continue reading
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