Two Years of Change
A
couple of weeks ago marked the end of our second year on the
farm. The changes that have occurred in the past two years are
striking when viewed from a distance....
"Sept.
2007 ---
- Water pumped from creek to tower, flows into house and garden.
- Corn, beans, squash, lettuce, okra, greens, and thousands of tomatoes.
- A ramshackle clothesline, attached at one end to the electric pole, at the other end to a stump.
- Chicken tractors three, eating weeds, laying eggs.
- Lucy, waiting on her master, beside the Ubiquitous Red Bucket.
- A house with brake lights."
"Sept. 2008 --- Sinking Creek
year two ---
- Our reach has expanded into three garden patches, grapes, berries, trees (only peaches thriving.) Our freezer is 3/4 full with garden produce.
- Our flock has shrunk --- five hens, a rooster, and seven pullets. Mark has built a Cadillac chicken tractor with wheels. Huckleberry and Lucy still reign.
- Our amenities have steadily improved. The red bucket has made way for a pump and thousand gallon tank. We drink treated water from the well. Our wood furnace keeps us warm.
- The Club Car is the new star of the show, effortlessly (and silently) whizzing up the driveway. The truck has been hauled off to the crusher.
- Our trials and tribulations --- fencing out deer, not enough hours in the day.
- Our joys --- a perfectly redesigned kitchen, growing veggies I've never grown before (peppers, watermelon, eggplant), lightning bugs, each other..."
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About us: 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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I just started back at the very beginning. It's like catching an entire show on Netflix from beginning to end.
I have always enjoyed keeping up with what you guys are doing.