Category Archives: Farm

Tennessee was getting ready to have some icy winter weather roll in. I got out to the farm to get hunkered down in preparation for freezing temperatures. While I was there I did some tree cleanup. I did all this while wearing my grandfather’s old insulated coveralls. [wipes tear from eye] Then once the weather …

Continue reading “Winter Farm Chores (DeanoFarms: Week 89)”

I planted a sapling (oak) and a seed (walnut). We’ll see if they make it. If they do they can join alongside their big brothers/sisters for the next 100 years.

FINALE! I finally finished the road through our woods to connect our front and back pastures.

Week 2 of this multiweek project. After a slow start with a myriad of problems the prior week I started making decent progress this weekend. It was a beautiful weekend to be in the woods. I dropped the largest tree I’ve ever cut down (a cedar tree). It even went the direction I wanted it …

Continue reading “Cutting A Road Through The Woods – Part 2 (DeanoFarms: Week 71)”

Sometimes I get moving a little too quickly trying to get a project finished. In the process, I start cutting corners. Sometimes this means I increase risks. I constantly have to remind myself to slow down. Especially if it is a project I’m not familiar with. ESPECIALLY when I have a chainsaw in my hand! …

Continue reading “Slow Down Deano! Chainsaw Safety (DeanoFarms: Week 70)”

Projects are often 1 step forward and 3 steps back. It was definitely like that on this day. Actually, several thousand steps backward on this day! I made many trips back and forth to the barn and wound up with very little to show for it other than all those steps! HA! Oh well, at …

Continue reading “Farm Fails – Sometimes Progress Is Slow! (DeanoFarms: Week 70)”

I need a road to connect my front pasture to my back pasture. This will take some time and lots of tree cutting, clearing, chipping, and leveling. Of course, everything will take longer than I want it to take (it always does). This is part one (of ?). #deanofarms

Good Trees = Good!Vines Growing In Good Trees = Bad!I, Deano, will conquer the vines! #deanofarms

Deano’s sick idea of a good day?!? Battling thistles in the TN heat! Ha! We let our fields grow all year (no mowing this year). I walked the property a few times and cut the thistles. Once cut, I spot-apply 10 parts diesel + 1 part herbicide with a paintbrush. I don’t really want ANY …

Continue reading “Thistle Wars Update (DeanoFarms: Week 67)”

We spent a decent amount of time and energy last year mowing the pastures (three times I think). I decided to take a different approach this year. The goal was 1) less work/time devoted to maintenance, 2) let some soil ‘build’ and 3) give natural habitat a chance to give some nature a home. I’m …

Continue reading “Letting The Pastures Grow & Thistle Wars (DeanoFarms: Week 55)”