Rural Landowner Conference

On Saturday, March 26th there is a rural landowner conference in Grant County. We have two friends that will be presenting one of the breakouts. (Driftless Market and Two Onion Farm) Other items of interest - Barbara Ingham, the guru of food preservation. A very exciting opportunity that we are looking forward to - especially since we missed MOSES this year. http://grant.uwex.edu/files/2010/12/RLC-Brochure.pdf Our MOSA application has been mailed! It is very exciting to be pursuing organic certification. We are in Wisc and tomorrow we try some frost seeding of a slope stabilization native mix. We don't want to re-create this previous mistake. Over the seed we are installing an erosion blanket. It will be a long hard day of work - can't wait! And the Family Farmed Expo is next weekend. Hope to make some connections for future sales.

Independence Day work

Bill and I had a long weekend in Wisc and we did some work at our church/home and at the farm.

The prairie planting that we did in lieu grass is coming along nicely.

We hadn't been in Wisc since Memorial Day weekend. It was good to be back. We are heading up again next week on Tues night for a few extended days of work - we hope to get started on rebuilding the barn foundation. we brought our flatbed trailer home so that we can load it up with materials. In order to fix the barn we need to rebuild part of the foundation that has worn away with the freeze/thaw of the seasons. We are looking forward to it.

I spent some time working on taking down the summer kitchen building. I hope to get it completely taken down.