I let the pasture grow all spring and summer this year and mowed everything down in late summer (mid-September). My plan was to get some seeds (from the plants that had gone to seed) to germinate in the rain that came in right as I finished mowing. I could get used to mowing only twice …
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Volunteer Tomatoes (DeanoFarms – Week 105-115)
FREE BLTS! I did not want a tomato plant this year. But, the monster tomato plant I grew last year had other plans. So, I got a new plant from its seeds–volunteer tomatoes! I did almost nothing to help it but I still got a few BLTs out of it. It was a nice little …
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Winter Mowing (DeanoFarms: Week 91)
I needed to do my winter mow while the wildlife was tucked away for the winter. I’d left a few brush pile messes around the place earlier in the summer that I needed to clean up. So, I cleaned up my messes and finished mowing everything on a nice winter weekend. Winter mowing is certainly …
Winter Farm Chores (DeanoFarms: Week 89)
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 …
Planting Trees (DeanoFarms: Week 80)
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.
Cutting A Road Through The Woods – Part 3 FINALE! (DeanoFarms: Week 72)
FINALE! I finally finished the road through our woods to connect our front and back pastures.
Cutting A Road Through The Woods – Part 2 (DeanoFarms: Week 71)
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 …
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Slow Down Deano! Chainsaw Safety (DeanoFarms: Week 70)
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! …
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Farm Fails – Sometimes Progress Is Slow! (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 …
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Cutting A Road Through The Woods – Part 1 (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
