Burning Brush

We’re late getting the brush out of the orchard. We burn the prunings and we got one pile burned today. This is the view down the orchard. Still not much grass! Desert Weyr Farm Blog

Stone Brew Visitors & Haying!

Greg Koch from Stone Brewing, Susan Duniphin & Keiffer Koch arrived for a short visit today. We started with some picture taking opportunities at the edge of the mesa. We had a lovely lunch at Flying Fork in Paonia and then got a great tour of both Revolution...

More Disking

Several passes later and the front field is looking pretty good. Still need to disk it once more to break up theclods but we should be ready to plant later this week. As soon as it’s planted and marked we’ll have to hurry to get the irrigation pipes set up...

Disking the Field

Our front west field is being disked now to prepare it for planting. We don’t have a big enough tractor or disk to do this sort of work on the fields so we hire the job out to custom farmers in our area. We’re going to put it back to permanent irrigated...