Farm Unfolded

Dean Mullis — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:06:57 +0000

Our farm space has always seemed cramped. Our big 310′ X 60′ field ended abruptly at a fence line, followed by a grassed waterway, which we run chickens on and then another fence line of my dad’s cattle pasture.Adding the additional acre of my dad’s pasture land was like opening a book. The left page was our existing land and the new ground was the right hand page. I guess the spine and binder of this book would be the grass waterway.

The chicken wagon is in the grass waterway, there was fence about 30 feet in front of it and a fence 30 feet behind it. The tilled up land behind the chicken tractor is an acre of new ground that has been in pasture for decades.

It is hard to describe how awesome it is to double your acreage with close access to water lines

Farm Tour

Dean Mullis — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:23:51 +0000

Wednesday, my neighbor Carl Wagner and I drove to Pittsboro to attend an afternoon/evening farm walk and workshop on winter growing and season extension using row covers and hardy varieties of vegetables.

It was held at the Piedmont Biofarm. The farmer, Doug Jones, has 38 years growing experience. First, in upstate NY and now NC. Doug started off the walk by stating that he would proudly show off his winter growing methods any February but this one. He had lost a lot of stuff to cold and wind.

Still, there were a quite a bit of crops growing. I was very impressed and overwhelmed with new information.

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Farm Unfolded

Farm Tour