mike at wildwood falls on lower brice creek

Gotta love 4 wheel drive & chains

Lib and tater sleeping on the couch

Made bubble & squeak for dinner but improved the recipe

added cornmeal and honey to round steak leftovers of potatoes, carrots and turnips

The greenhouse exterior is complete

All we have left is the wiring and interior paint.

I already have greens sprouting indoors.

Greenhouse automatic vents installed!

our new Guinea Hog boar

there are only aprox. 200 of these in existence - very rare

Added 3 more windows to north side greenhouse

Mike is worming vaccinating and trimming goat hooves.

jacy is night painting.

Mike is writing his opening statement at the beach

yearling does is afraid to jump the electric to join the herd

garden pic: fall cover crop with greenhouse in the background

Crimson clover and wheat cover most of the garden. Their roots are intregal in the plan to break up the clay below the tiller level.

free woodchips for the fruit trees

Lane Electric trimmed the trees near the power lines and agreed to leave a five-yard load behind.

Jacy monitoring the turkeys

Goose crossing

Glenora grapes are ripe!

Installing the greenhouse door

Jacy found this huge chicken nest - that explains missing eggs

eastside of greenhouse is red

The greenhouse with a coat of red paint

A photo of Jacy & Liberty watching Twin Peaks Season 1.

Mike overseeded 50 lbs of pasture grass this evening

jacy is painting the greenhouse.

Jacy is preparing the final east window for installation.

pic of the westside of greenhouse

Here's a photo of Jacy watering the concord grape.

The grape was completely stripped of leaves by the goats in the spring but it came back.

our greenhouse is coming along nicely.

Some of the pears and apples are still ripening

We have another round of raspberries...yum....

we bottled 12 bottles of 2007's Pear Mead

Drinking mickey's at PJs

Our flowers are still blooming

We're bottling 2006 Drunken Marauder Mead

The bees work the borage while jacy works the blackberries.

The borage was planted from seed next to fence in our cement blocks used for the permanent raised beds. The blackberry was here when we arrived a few years ago. We can pick huge berries since it is watered and protected from deer.

I love smoking with nothing but wood -beef & fuel both from farm

Picking apples next door

Apple into the hopper

Cider dripping off the press.p

We have pressed 3 gallons of apple cider so far (10 prcnt brix)

mike just bought a papered Boer buck

Introducing Tater Tot

smoking London's chuck roast with apple & pear wood.

The last two times on the bbq I've been using all wood heat. 5 hours for this roast

Flowers for the last honey flow.

Sunflowers and flowers between the fruit trees.

370 lbs of honey

The tame blackberry tastes like kool-aid. yum

glenora grapes

The grape vines on the arbor are producing.