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Every
month, I make a list of the farm projects that really must get done
that month. And at the end of the month, I shake my head in
digust and move half a dozen tasks onto next month's list.
But not this
March! For the first time ever in our three and a half years on
the farm, we actually finished everything on the month's list...with
two days to spare! In large part, I suspect this unexpected
success came about because Mark insisted on buying a truckload
of mulch, saving me
days worth of work raking
leaves out of the woods. But I like to imagine
that we're actually starting to get the farm under control and broken
down into bite-size segments.
Of course, weeding
didn't even make it onto the March list. Guess what I'll be doing
all of April? I got a head start on Monday, with sodden soil
making it easy to rip out chickweed, deadnettles, bittercress, and
dandelions that had sprung up in gaps in the strawberry beds'
mulch. Three wheelbarrow loads of succulent greenery plopped into
our four year old Golden Comets' tractor, their prize for laying one
egg per bird per day for the last few days despite their age.
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Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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