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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed

~ Walt Whitman

Pear Sawfly

This weekend the weather couldn’t have been more perfect.  Now that all the poultry projects are complete we turned our attention back toward the orchard.  We still have a lot of work to do.  The most important task is wrapping up our never-ending irrigation project, so that was our primary goal this weekend.  As we were [...]

Oh Deer, Not AGAIN

Our deer win the award for persistence!  In our prior post we were lamenting the fact that despite our best efforts this winter, the local cervids have out-smarted us.  A 7-foot perimeter fence around the orchard and gardens proved that it wasn’t sufficient to keep our browsing deer at bay.

I'm sure the [...]

Oh Deer, Oh Deer

This weekend we had plans to finish up the construction of some of the raised vegetable garden boxes so that we could transplant out our seedlings.  However, our plans for working on that project were thwarted on two fronts. 

Raised redwood boxes under construction

The first issue was the weather, which seems to have reverted to a [...]

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