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2025

Clean up your (branch) mess

11/22/2025

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As a new farmer, and being who I am, I do a lot of dumb things, make a lot of mistakes.  Largely, this is from inexperience, but partly it’s because I’m often asking “Hm, what if I do it this way or that other way, would that be better?”  ​

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Fertility Islands for Nurturing Baby Trees

11/16/2025

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This summer was dry - not crazy hot, but August was very dry, just two days with a bit of rain.  July had also been pretty dry.   In our field with 300 plus young chestnut, walnut, and pecan trees (planted in the Spring of this year and the year before), much of the grass was brown and dry.  Good practice says you should water baby trees in that kind of dry spell.  But we were short on workers and I was away all of August (family visit).  So in all that time, we were only able to do a good watering once.    It reminded me a bit of the great Big Foot Tree Death of 2020, a year when we also had young trees in the ground, it was dry and we could not water enough.

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It takes a village to keep sheep!

11/14/2025

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A little bit of context: the 36 acres of our farm is dissected by two country roads, making three parts.  We refer to them as: the North field - a big field that is contiguous with where our house and the (very simple) barns are; the Woods across from Hatchery road which is in front of our house; and Cross field across from Cross road.  People sometimes stop on Cross road to look at the sheep if they are out there, or, to spot one of the many birds that live in the little woodsy area at the back.  For example, a week or so ago, I chatted with a lady who had stopped to look at a particular tree.  She also mentioned she knew Dave, who takes care of his 102 year-old dad, Lee Evers (now that's long-term parent care!.... Whoooo or should I say Waaaahh) and who is part of our food scrap pick up route.   This kind of thing happens all the time in our little village, which is part of the charm of being here.

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    Babette is a permaculture farmer in Western Massachusetts.  

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