Yet ANOTHER Tool!

 I guess if we are going to be serious

about this farming thing, we are

going to need the correct tools.

In the past we have borrowed the neighbor's,

but never a borrower nor a lender be.....

So.....

Last week Kyle and I took his big truck 

over to a town called Lake Wales in the center

of the state to my favorite farm store.

It's called Rural King and beats the socks 

off of our local (or any) Tractor Supply.

Anyhow.

We went to pick up a new tiller!

He will hook it up behind the tractor and

we will be able to till up the pastures and

re-seed them with... whatever.

The back back pasture is already re-seeded in

a good grass seed - but it will take a year for it

to be ready for grazing.

Kyle did a couple of his pastures at the ranch

and they looked awful.

Until the next season when there was grass

up to your knees!!!

Finger crossed!

So that pasture is closed until then.

OH! and on that trip his odometer turned over to 5000 miles!

It's really hard to get a picture of that when you

are driving on country highways.

Anyhow...

The middle back pasture right now is just some

nasty grass and weeds.

Once our new seed order arrives, we will be tilling

it and putting it in sunn hemp.

That was such a fun crop and it grows SO FAST!

It's high protein, so we will grow it for 5-6 weeks,

put the cows on it for a few hours every day for

a couple of weeks, and then mulch and till it back 

under and do the whole process over again.

It also does a great job of reconditioning the soil.

Always a good idea.

Fingers crossed!!!

I'm also thinking about tilling the little section

next to the duck pen, fencing it off (with coral

panels so it is moveable) and planting it

in moringa trees. A little orchard.

The cows LOVE it and it is also a high

protein, fast growing plant.

It froze back in February, grew as tall

as the fence by the end of march but then

kind of stopped growing.

Until I realized the cows were reaching over

the top of the fence and EATING IT!

(which is why it never got taller than the fence!)

We put a panel up so they couldn't get to it

and in the next month it grew nearly 4 more feet!

I "think" I still have a bunch of seeds,

but if I don't I can order some.

Moringa is a "superfood" so we might also

dry some of the leaves and grind them up

for us - but we'll see. Right now I'm buying

a supplement that has a bunch of stuff including

moringa - but maybe one day when I have 

some extra time.

HA!