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Managed Intensive Rotational Grazing for Sheep

  • December 27, 2016
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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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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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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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