While the solar system was being installed, we continued fall farm work. One task was to clean out one of our ditches. Ken used the backhoe to clean it out on September 11th. This area is where we will rebuild the pens for the rams for winter.
We have an apple crop this year, and we want to try and make cider. Our apple press is in need of work. Some of the blades are broken, so we have new ones on order. It’s pretty close to done now on the 13th of September.
It’s also time to bring the sheep in from the pasture. We coated as many adult ewes as I had coats for, and we sent the rest, plus all the ewe lambs, back out to pasture for a few days. I need to get busy sewing more sheep coats before we can finish getting the girls in the barn for winter.
The two fields we planted this year have grown up with major weeds. The front one, especially, had hundreds of cockleburrs. In an attempt to keep them from setting seeds, Ken decided to mow the entire field. It looks so good that he did the other field, too. We’ve gotten the sheep off the field, and we hope that the grass will grow a bit more before winter and fully establish by next summer.
