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- From: KAKerby AT aol.com
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] is the list quiet
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:36:22 -0400 (EDT)
Today was a very big day here. We finally signed the land lease
that I think I spoke of this past winter. We rented 14 acres of
pastureland from the older gentleman farmer who is one part foster grandfather,
one part mentor, one part hay broker for me. His kids and grandkids look
to the farm as a pretty place and full of memories but none of them are
interested in actively working it. I had hoped and worked towards this day
for a long time and it's finally a done deal. His eyes were gleaming as we
started to talk about the livestock I'll be grazing there and the soil testing
I'll be doing, how I'll keep the pasture tended, how I'll be fencing and
rotating paddocks, etc. This is a piece of ground away from the main
farm which has been under-utilized for many years. He just didn't have the
energy to get out there and deal with it. So having someone working it
again for honest-to-goodness agricultural purposes (as opposed to something like
a soccer field or a paint-ball field) is making him all sorts of happy.
It's a big step for us and solves a lot of feed issues for us, but I think I'm
more pleased about his excitement at having it in production again.
Kathryn Kerby
frogchorusfarm.com
Snohomish, WA
Ruminations - essays on the farming life at
frogchorusfarm.com/weblog.html
In a message dated 4/29/2011 7:20:04 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
deb AT mobiusfields.com writes:
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[Market-farming] is the list quiet,
Beth Spaugh, 04/29/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] is the list quiet,
Richard Stewart, 04/29/2011
- [Market-farming] Organic/Natural producers in Mobile, AL area, Mike Brabo, 04/29/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] is the list quiet, Deb Taft, 04/29/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] is the list quiet,
Mike Rock, 04/30/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] is the list quiet, sunmoonriver, 04/30/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] is the list quiet,
KAKerby, 04/29/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] is the list quiet,
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Re: [Market-farming] Extreme weather & RWH,
Mike Brabo, 04/30/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Extreme weather & RWH,
Mike Brabo, 04/30/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] is the list quiet,
Road's End Farm, 04/30/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] is the list quiet, Richard Stewart, 04/30/2011
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- [Market-farming] pH adjustment for irrigating tomatoes with high pH well water., Marlin & Christine Burkholder, 04/30/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] is the list quiet,
Richard Stewart, 04/29/2011
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