Spring Planting and CSA Potluck at the Farm – March 30, 2014 THE STAGE IS SET Today’s goal is to plant these flats of kale, onion and lettuce in the back field. But first, compost must be added to the beds. THE PERFECT ENVIRONMENT The two beds were covered in leaf […]
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A typical February in “El Norte” complete with cold, snow and much longing for Spring but with enough bright spots to push our happiness meters above the halfway mark. PURGE Camille began the month with the empowering activity of cleaning out the community refrigerator. Here’s the before and after. FUN IN THE BARN
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After a few days in the 60 degree range we thought we had winter behind. That’s about when we woke to find our world buried in snow – February 12 and 13, 2014 GOOD MORNING Well, this is what we found the morning of February 12. Snowville, U.S.A. The birds were queued up at
Greenhouses Rising! A PROJECT A LONG TIME COMING These two small greenhouse (24\’ x 17\’) have been languishing unfinished for about three years, due to lack of a coordinated effort among other things. When Lyle asked Bob if he\’d like to “jump in” and complete them, Bob was thrilled. As you can see,
Another great month with a good balance of work and play, warm weather and cold. STARTING THE YEAR RIGHT Good friends and good food is the best way to start a new year. Check out more pictures from our annual Hoppin John Party LEETLE PITTSBORO Home to one of the 600 or
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Our fourth annual New Year’s Day party (we skipped a year in 2013) featuring Spot and big pots of beans and rice with greens and cornbread and Spot photos for those who were new to Trouts Farm. – January 1, 2014 PARTY PREP Camille opens the first bottle of champagne for a pre-party
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Firewood. It’s what happens when life gives you fallen trees and reasonable weather. All you need is willing friends with chainsaws and a wood splitter. January, 2014 THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING POPLAR Let’s just say it was an unpopular tree. Its roots were “death to mower” and it continually dropped small branches
In which we successfully locate Bob’s other childhood home in Accra, fly to Morocco, take the train to Marrakech (just like in the song!) and make our way home to North Carolina in time to celebrate the holidays. ACCRA REVISITED As planned, all four of us left Casa Kumasi for Accra on the
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Bringing the yard back up to snuff at Trouts Farm December 14-29, 2013 FALLEN OAK While we were hanging out in Africa, a large oak tree fell on the pole barn we call our garage. When Lyle noticed this, he offered to cut it into firewood with his chainsaw. He pulled up in
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NC RIDING – 2012 Another happy year of traipsing through the tangled wooded trails, over red dirt logging roads and overgrown power lines with a great gaggle of horse women on their trusty steeds SPRING MIXER – February 26 First there were three, then five and then seven of us on the trail. This
