Little horns emerging!
Folks!
Here's a chronicle in pictures of some of the goings on here at the BZ Farm starting in March 2022 and updated when we can.
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Tilling in the rye/vetch/peas overwintered cover crop for this year's potato patch. Final pass.
Tilling in the rye/vetch/peas overwintered cover crop for this year's potato patch.
Tilling in the rye/vetch/peas overwintered cover crop for this year's potato patch.
A few ways to go about this. I can till the tall stalks in while they are green and turgid. I can mow the topgrowth with a lawnmower and then till it in or I can use the walk-behind sicklebar mower to cut fresh hay for the goats to eat, like here. Eventually, that green topgrowth will make it back into the garden as composted goat manure. The bulk of the added organic matter from the cover crop is in the roots which will now decompose for a couple of weeks before we plant these beds.
A Salmon-colored sunset.
Here's Raven practicing to be a milking goat.
A bevy of blossoms.
Bu Bu makes sure I'm doing it right.
Bu Bu makes sure I'm doing it right.
Cabbage flowers emerge from last year's replanted cabbages.
The rye is almost three feet tall and ready to incorporate. May 5th.
Goat milk?
The ducks enjoying being lawnmowers.
Three times a day, every day. Every day Raven's a little bit bigger.
Mushroom fest costume contest.
This "community paint" culminated in two beautiful paintings that were auctioned off to raise funds for the Inland Northwest Permaculture Guild at the mushroom festival.
Full Moon April 30, 2026.
Well, the old arthritic hands can't cope with twice-a-day milking any more but this inexpensive 12 volt milking machine is doing a fine job.
Well, the old arthritic hands can't cope with twice-a-day milking any more but this inexpensive 12 volt milking machine is doing a fine job.
Apple blossoms about to pop.
The best use I've found for soaker hose-- watering the compost piles.
Mining gold from the goat hutch.
Introducing Raven!