Farm- To-Do List: November 2017 (11-19-17)
Always with the fossil fuels, eh?
Our to-do list on the farm (updated every weekend) is a constant moving target. It can be comprised of small personal items, like curing a jowl and making wine; the everyday, check electric fencing; the ongoing, building new infrastructure. But, it is always a snapshot of both the production and the homestead aspects of our life on this farm.
Short-term: now-14 days
- Water greenhouse (today)
- Drain field water lines (today)
- Repair truck lighting harness (today)
- Replace gutter (today)
- Set-up plucker and scalder (today)
- Start new wines
- Check electric wire fencing
- Move/replant figs
- Get load of rock and spread in front of haybarn (Monday)
- Setup winter pastures/Move ram lambs (today)
- Retrieve and store electric posts (done)
- Clean house/apartment/barn gutters (today)
- Clean and paint black the old water heater/complete solar heater project
- Take jowl out of cure and hang under stairs/order beef bung for lamb culatello
Winter veggies.
Mid-term: 15-90 days
- Pick-up co-op hog minerals
- Winterize apartment/workshop
- Pot up vitex
- Seal well house with screen
- Call and get biomatter at Roane State/leaf mulch in Sweetwater
- Use up composted manure from last winter
- Retrieve hay tarp
- Move hives
- Use sawmill/retrieve cut firewood and logs from the woods
- Rework web-site/focus on lamb/pork/volunteers/honey
- Butcher two lambs/focus on production of charcuterie cuts
- Install smoker for well-house
- Work on drainage behind equipment shed/fill in dirt
- Improve WWOOF presence/complete video
- Begin work on new pig paddock/complete between Thanksgiving and Christmas
- Remove and install new kitchen cabinets
- Determine course for beef production
- Bush-hog back pastures
- Install new weanling hogs
- Yearling lambs to processor (January-February)
- Lamb season begins (January 1)
2018 spring garden manured and tarped.
Long-term: 3-12 months
- Fence in pasture behind Mark’s house for rams in off season
- Look for used commercial planer for sawmill
- Prepare for spring capture of wild swarms
- Improve pollinator options/buckwheat plantings for lower orchard/transplant vitex
- Hogs to market (March)
