Ken and I heated with wood. Ken felled trees, and I would place them on end, Ken would split them, I would put them in the trailer and Ken would drive it into the yard where I would stack the wood. Later we got a splitter that could split 40″ wood for side stoking the pottery kiln. Now that Ken is gone I have to face that I never ran a chainsaw, rarely ran …
We have been experiencing cold temperatures over weeks – too long for a cold snap, or a cold spell, it’s a cold stretch! During this stretch what is my first thought once the sun is out, the wind dies down and it climbs UP to minus ten degrees? FILL THE WOOD RACKS! First I sought out my enthusiastic trainer, Oscar. Then I hauled in wood to fill the cooks stove wood rack …
Greetings from the Garden! This box has greens – spinach, lettuce, salad mix, potato onions or green onions, potatoes and beets from the root cellar and some fresh herbs Field Notes. Ken keeps a-planting and a-weeding. Right now he is also getting ready for our spring opener next weekend. His largest task is clearing some downed wood and I am helping stack once we split it. Oscar went in for surgery. He had a benign …
Over the past week Ken has been working to clear the cut wood along the drive. Once he cuts it to length, loads it onto the trailer and gets the trailer up to the wood splitter I start to help. He runs the splitter and I stack. We have stacked teh north end shelves and a rack on the north end to hold the wood in place. And north of that are chunks that …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s box has greens – lettuce, salad mix, spinach, wild mustard, green onions, chives, potatoes, celery root, beets, and herbs. Field Notes. Ken has been planting and transplanting: his nursery inside the mobile high tunnel, his pepper and tomato plants in the germination cabinet, and the onion seedlings. He has also been cleaning up the greenhouse in the field; perennial crops have perennial weeds. And to avoid any possible boredom, …
Ken has been clearing the hill of some logs he cut log ago. He measures Then he cuts some long enough for the side stoke holes in the pottery kiln Some wood is cut in short lengths and stacked on a trailer. Ken splits and I stack for the cook stove. Some will also go to the larger wood stove near the studio on the lower floor. …
