The Twenty-eight Eleven

Friday, February 12, 2010

Snow on the 2811!!!

In a rare appearance ......we have snow! Or as a friend of mine put it, "a precipitation accumulation sensation!" The kids, of course, had to get out and play in it but I was content to sit by the fire and eat home made oatmeal raisin cookies. It is now 7:00pm and it is still coming down pretty good. The low for tonight is 26 so maybe we'll have some more play time in the morning.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Blackberries

Here is the beginning of our thornless blackberry trellis. It is 30 feet long and a little over 7 feet tall. So far all we have are the main posts up, but I thought it would be good to document the building of it in stages. When you can't farm full time you have to do things in stages as time, funds, and the weather allow. I got these posts up this morning before the rain came (again). As you can see the chickens were looking on with their usual curiosity.

Welcome!

Welcome to our family blog. We have a small (55 acres) farm and are attempting to raise beef cattle, some hay, laying hens, honey bees, a dog and a small garden. We also have a small pond that has fish in it but they pretty much raise themselves.The Twenty-eight eleven is the name of our farm. It comes from Deutronomy 28:11 which reads: "The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you." We count on God's blessings for our life as we know it so we thought it appropriate to go ahead and give Him all the glory for anything good that we produce, be it crops, cows, or children. This blog will be a fun project for us to document what is going on at our farm and hopefully share some natural ways of farming along the way (as we learn too).