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Holy Week Lamb

  • April 14, 2017
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  • Becca
When we came home from church on Palm Sunday, there was one sheep going making all sorts of noise in the pasture so I told Ivar he had better go…
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An Abundance of Maple Syrup

  • March 23, 2017
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Hi everyone. This is Becca, Rory’s wife. We have decided to team up a bit more as we share what we are loving and learning about our life in the…
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Gautschi’s Gardens

  • January 30, 2017
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  • Rory
I’ve written on a few occasions of Back to Eden style gardening. Back in October my Dad and I made a pilgrimage to the Sequim, Washington in the Olympic Peninsula to…
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How much to grow?

  • January 2, 2017
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  • Rory
One of the most common questions I get asked about gardening is “How much should I grow?” Another question that goes along with it is “How  big of a garden do…
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Managed Intensive Rotational Grazing for Sheep

  • December 27, 2016
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  • Rory
Managed Intensive Rotational Grazing. That’s a mouthful. MIRG for short. MIRG is a system of pasturing animals to maximize pasture growth. Proponents call it farming grass. Rotational grazing is nothing new.…
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Sheep & Apples

  • August 22, 2016
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The story of our getting sheep started with a hunt for hay baling equipment. Every year we lose one-third to one-half of our hay crop to delays. We rely on…
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