Sunday, November 27, 2011

sheep rustling




The sheep broke out of the field today on their way to warmer winter quarters. No suicides and one still missing as of tonight.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

room to grow

I'm starting this blog as an offshoot to watchthehousegrow, my other blog. This one will explore the  agricultural evolution of my land beyond the house.  I have 130 acres of protected forest and about 30 acres of agricultural land. This aerial image shows most of the property. The field is at the bottom, along the Neversink River, and shaped kind of like a bird or maybe a trout, and the forest is all above it. I think this picture was taken soon after a logging done by the previous owners (mid 70s?) The whole top of the hill looks almost bare.  It's completely reforested now and in the NY forest conservation program, which makes it ripe for future silviculture projects. I'm hoping to lay out the field projects as a larger piece that will be recognizable from space (just in case).