A Certified Naturally Grown Farm - Saint Marys, Pennsylvania
Snap, Crackle, POP!
The evening of Thursday, 21 July, Northcentral Pennsylvania was visited by a pretty intense storm cell. High winds, humid air, rain, thunder, and lighting…a classic thunderboomer. As is normal during the week, I was at our place in Montoursville. When Jenn woke me up…
Sub-Soiling Between Two Posts…Deep Thoughts
The time had come to begin preparing the large hopyard for round 2 of its existence, this time with better-prepared soils and hills. We (I) took out the remaining two hills in 2022 after we’d given up on the three initial hills about four…
2021 Season – “It’s Done”
Apologies upfront. I’d stepped away from the weekly blog in late Spring as we began in earnest on our Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) solar pump/irrigation grant project. Although we’d been awarded the grant back in 2019, with the pandemic running its course through…
“Bring me the hydrospanner!”
So at the end of last week’s work, I fired up the IH674 to head up to the large field for a small task I’ve put off for years. When we put in the large yard, my Dad and I spent an afternoon attempting…
“It’s alive…ALIVE!”
Sorry for the dramatic title but…we just got word today from Hines Equipment in Altoona, the Case-International Harvester dealer we took the tractor to…that repairs have been completed on the 674!! We will be clearing out room in the barn this coming Monday as ironically…
