Please forgive the absence of posts lately--it's been farm-to-be work time here for the last several days. We drove back to Montana last Sunday hauling some 15 gallons or so of apple juice pressed in Oregon last week, and ever since have been fully immersed in trying to get systems set up here on the place. We're still in the toolshed, but taking advantage of some nice fall day weather to get stuff done outside. Our friend John is visiting from Wisconsin, we've put him straight to work....a new metal roof went up this morning on a great old pole building we refer to as the "goat shed." It's support timbers are sound but shingles had blown off ages ago, and one more winter would have done in the wood on the roof. We're aren't sure, really if goats will be the first thing it houses, but at least now whatever lives in there (not us, thankfully) will be dry!
It may be quiet here for the next few days again as we build nest boxes and roosts for a chicken coop, dig garden beds and plant garlic, and, um, run a small workshop on Permaculture this weekend. And of course, we'll be composting, as always. Noah is officially compost king this week, because he won the wager we had of how hot the compost would be when we returned (the measured 136 was closer to his 140 guess than my 130).
Was Noah able to smuggle any cider pressing leftovers home to compost or set up a pile in Oregon?
ReplyDeleteYes! We had two 5-gallon buckets we use for filtering the veggie oil in small batches, that had also served as fuel transport on the trip out. Those came back to Montana full of apple pulp and are heating up our compost right now. The rest got dumped on the folks' raised bed.
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