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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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Back to Eden Garden Update

  • July 9, 2016
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It’s a happy day when blueberries and cherries are ripe for picking! We spent the the evening in the berry patches after dinner. Strawberries have come and gone, blueberries are…
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Six weeks with the goats

  • June 26, 2016
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  • Rory
It’s been a little over six weeks since we brought goats to our farm.  All in all, it has been very smooth. I was expecting a lot of fence-breaking and…
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Little lambs

  • June 5, 2016
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  • Rory
We didn’t originally plan to acquire sheep so soon. We felt that goats were going to be enough of an adventure. But we had the space, the pasture, and enough…
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Building a Top Bar Hive

  • May 23, 2016
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  • Rory
We’re trying a new style of beehive this year called a top-bar hive. It’s new to us and most American beekeepers but is actually a very old style. It predates the…
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