5 Acres & A Dream
Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts
April 18, 2025

Painting the Barn

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One of the projects on our to-do list  is giving the barn a fresh coat of paint. It's been seven years since the barn was built, and it ...
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October 30, 2023

Garden Notes: October 2023

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  Rainfall  12th: 0.55" 14th: 0.33" 16th: 0.01" 20th: 0.31" Total: 1.2 inches Temperature range of nighttime lows: 38 to...
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June 24, 2023

Of Fallen Trees and What We Do With Them

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In  my last blog post , I mentioned that a tree had fallen on our fence. Uprooted pine tree. It's a pine tree that was growing on the ot...
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December 5, 2022

Greenhouse Progress: A Side Project, Actually

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Every big project seems to present at least one thing that isn't the project itself, but must be addressed in conjunction with the proje...
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March 28, 2022

March Photos

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Closing out March with a few random photos from my March photo folder. I have to comment on ...
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February 21, 2022

Brush Fence

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Some of our property is fenced, some of it isn't. The garden and pastures are, but our woods aren't. But the woods is where I take t...
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February 9, 2022

Forest Garden Update: What I've Been Planting

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Here's another update from my  winter outdoor project  list. Besides swales , I'm working on my forest garden . (Planning pic...
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5 Acres & A Dream. The dream has always been to live close to the land. The five acres came in 2009, when my husband Dan and I bought a neglected 1920s-built bungalow on a piece of old farmland. The goal is simpler, sustainable, more self-reliant living, and a return to agrarian values.
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