Jeff n Jenny
Overrun with beasties
We are coming through our third winter and second year on this old farm. Our first lesson was pH. We get ~54" rain annually compared to 9" in western Montana. The water molecule brings H (hydrogen) to the soil, making it acidic. Very different from the alkaline dry soil out west. We are flirting with organic methods, reading lots of stuff. We like the following authors: Pat Colby, William Albrecht, Newman Turner, Joel Salatin, and some others. This is cow country, more so since the tobacco industry is waning. We like sheep and cows for starting our new adventure. Sheep are more work for us because of the predator threat in this backcountry. We still have lots to do with the basics: building repairs, fencing, clearing, and rehabilitating pasture and fields. We kept sheep for 2-seasons without a fence, training to lead ropes and learned a lot working with them. We tethered our ram when he would get rammy, but most of the time he was a good boy. I have heart surgery coming up so we downsized a bit and sold our flock . I miss the bunch and would have preferred to keep some of the best trained to rebound with. Nothing like an animal that knows the routine to help others fall in line.
We're here to learn and help anyone if we can.
We're here to learn and help anyone if we can.
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