Saturday's Project

Even though it was 40 degrees, yesterday I spent the afternoon working by myself here at the farm. This is the setting for the gardening venture Andrea and I have set out on.

This house is over 100 years old and the homestead of Andrea's MIL. She and Jeff lived here until they built a log home just down the drive from where the bottom photo is shot. It needs bu coos of work. It may serve eventually as the sales building and perhaps canning and processing of veggies for sale. It's far in the future and things have already morphed in different directions since we started thinking about this.


This is directly behind the house to the west. Some of those trees in the yard, just yucky silver maples are going. I am not one to cut down trees willy-nilly but these have to go to make room for fruit trees and asparagus beds.







The wad of tree sprouts, also silver maples directly over the top of these chair is what I worked cutting down although the three largest ones were in the fence line and no matter what way I was going to saw, they were going to fall on the grapes trellised so I left them for now. They will have to come out since we are adding more grapes in there. Note the decrepid outhouse covered in ivy.


This big expanse of lawn that is present in all pics was once the garden area so it should (fingers crossed) be fairly good dirt. I'll get a soil sample today. This is where the raised beds and blackberries, raspberries and strawberries are going in.



To the left across the drive is another piece of lawn that could eventually hold a high tunnel with strawberries. Not sure yet if it's feasible since the woods encroach a bit.

Today looks to be a very nice day with sunshine and temps in the 60's. Yay!