Slug Trap
This summer something has been eating holes in all of our Cruciferous vegetables. After a little research we found it was slugs. It didn’t involve too much research, there are literally hundreds of slugs around the farm, each morning there…
Hickory dickory dock
I’m not sure how Amanda knows all this stuff, but a few weekends ago she picked up what appeared to me to me a small bruised apple and said she thought it was a hickory nut. After consulting our two…
Greenhouse: The wall detail
The plan is to use old single-pane divided light windows for the walls of the greenhouse. The windows were practically free, and we think the older and weathered aesthetic they bring will go better with the other buildings on the…
Hurricane Irene
With Hurricane Irene bearing down on NYC we assumed we would be better off on higher ground, tucked away in the foothills. We were safe, but definitely not better off. While our friends in the city were back at work…
The Butterfly Garden
We’ve been fortunate enough that the previous owners loved the house, and loved gardening. They surrounded the entire home in a moat of flora, many of the flowers planted to attract butterflys and hummingbirds. This spring we trimmed and mulched…
The Harvest
Our garden is the vegetable version of Noah’s ark, we basically have two of everything. This year instead of going for a big crop of anything we planted a wide variety of plants to see what would do well, so…
Another animal for the menagerie
This spring we had a truckload of mulch/soil delivered to the house and dumped on our driveway. We’ve used most of it on the vegetable garden, but there was a good bit left over. This weekend we finally moved it…
Look what’s coming to dinner
The fourth of July weekend was a productive one. We managed to start, and finish, one of the many projects on our list – a dinner table. Amanda’s grandmother gave us a beautiful little table a few years back, a…
A new project
This one is gonna take a while. We haven’t even finished half the other projects (fixing up the shop, fixing up the club, putting up the screen door, making the dinner table, replacing the rotted wood on the small gazebo,…
And then there were none
Our last guinea hen is now gone. Painfully, for the last few weeks the numbers have declined steadily. At the end of the day we would check the coop and sometimes they were all there, but typically one was missing….