It’s fall at the farm now – we had our first hard freeze last week. When we woke up the ground was white and the thermometer said 30 degrees. Continue reading →

My best adventure this week was enticing hummingbirds to eat from my hand. Continue reading →

Our house construction is finished, and Mike’s ham radio tower is up! It’s so nice to have our quiet house back, and to have beautiful views out the windows instead of machines and construction materials. Continue reading →

Yellow is the predominant color in the prairies right now. Continue reading →

I finally took some photos of the main view of the farm – the one you see from the road. It’s too wide to take with one photo so I combined three photos into a panorama. Continue reading →

I worked more on Milkweed Meadow this week – the place in the wetland where we sprayed last year and it all came up in milkweed and other natives. I finally got all the Wild Parsnip pulled – it looks much better. Continue reading →

This week we did annual 4th of July Butterfly Count for Buffalo County. It’s the third year we’ve done this count. Since there’s so little public land in Buffalo County, we count at our farm, and on one or two neighboring farms. Continue reading →

This week I worked on some big weeding projects. It seems silly to weed our huge prairies by hand, but I haven’t found any other ways to get rid of some of the most troublesome weeds. Continue reading →