We Got A Tractor!

     What a wonderful day on the farm! We are the proud new owners of a Massy Ferguson 1949 To-30 Tractor. This thing means business!
      To start very impressed with its determination to run! You hit the start and it fires right up! Just have to feel out old engines. Love this TRACTOR she is a beaut and keeps on kicking no matter what!
    

      This thing has a 3 point hitch and PTO going for it. We have what you can kind of see in the pic is a plow. We also have a 6ft. grade blade. We are after a Bush Hog, Finish Mower, and Disk setup.
      What a time to be on the farm. And to think we thought this was only a dream that was so far away.  We thought we wouldn't be here before the end of 2012.
      With the way the political, mental, and meteorlogical weather is blowing these days, I'd say I have much more at work than just my own efforts.  I look to my ancestors for inspiration and guidance. I look to my present council. And I look to what is ahead that can guide me.

~Onward, Foreward!

Burn? Barrel? Eco?

     So look we aim to be a completely open honest eco village because we believe this angle or goal will bring us the most benefit as far as exposing our weaknesses and thus solving our most nagging problems.
     Here is one of them..
     This is our "Burn Barrel". We purchased a metal barrel (food grade). We cut the top off and hammered the rough edges making them somewhat smooth. And we added a few air holes as well as ignition door. And there you have it...
     We burn anything we can't recycle or compost. We are in our infancy and we know we do not want to commit to local government deciding  how best to deal with our trash. Our aim is waste reduction.

     This is an example of honesty. Has anyone out there found another way to deal with this issue? Please comment and interact with our blog!
~Onward, Forward. =)

Hey Its Moss Man!

      This is our friend moss pelt. We plan to do many things with moss pelt. Moss + Butter Milk = spreadable moss you can paint and will continue to grow! WONDERFUL! INCREDIBLE! NON-EDIBLE MOSS!

Ollie The Mountain Dog!

This is "Ollie". He was a puppy we fell in love with at a swap meet last December.  He is completely engineered by humans.  
     He is a bonafied back woods mountain dog believe it or not! This dog will go up and down any mountain to be beside you! He has traversed all 51 acres an astonishing three times! Give it up for Ollie. He farts (because he loves anything but his own food) and climbs mountains!

Catfish at "The Grove"

WHAMMMMMMMM!

     Big, Big, Catfish in "The Lake" as it is called for now (until I come up with some unique Indian name for it that will come to me in a dream).
     These catfish are on a stringer and out of the water for a reason. At this point walking them up here. Posing for a picture, keeping them on a line which they sat until I harvested to bring them up. .Fish #3 being the lucky one with less torture. Returning them at this point being a death sentence and also negative large mass additive to the pond taking a long time to decompose or be eaten.
     They were delicious I will report. And I am certain they would eat me and there young all in one fell swoop if I were small enough and they were big enough. Again, delicious! we used 100% of every fish harmed in the making of this blog!
     ~Onward, Forward!

Buckeye Chickens, Heritage Breed at "The Grove"

      Here is our gorgeous Buckeye Chickens that grace the presence of our Sugar Grove Eco Village in Sugar Grove, OH. We have one Rooster who is still an amazing presence despite his age! He will be around to brood the next round of Bird after these Hen's. Who... say it quietly... (are not laying at the time). You know what that means. Well new people for Mr. B to meet come spring! =)
     We have chosen this breed of chicken due to the fact it is a heritage breed native to Ohio. Breed by an early Ohioan who acclimated them to our climate and micro-climates which form Eco-systems that supply unique bugs which cause a natural herd grazing mentality that had them here there and everywhere then home to their comfort zone we have provided at night. ( as seen in previous blog ). 
    Seen here being naughty and getting into my organic open pollinated wheat grass seed I planted not long ago. Not happy and laying down thanks to the chickens.

Building A Green House for 100$ continued..

 So there it is. As seen before on our blog. We attempted, and were sucessful at bulding a greenhouse for 100$.
     Do not ask us for a parts list. Do not ask us for deminsions! The pictures are here. Make your inner genious work and build the damn thing.
     A gift to you, brought to you by: The loving and caring souls residing at "The Grove"

      Yes! Yes! Yes! There is an inside. Do not let this fool you. It dose not happen over night, Tho in the blink of an eye it was created! Be the master of your own destiny.
       You may only build with love if you have learned to love. And if you have learned to love than you have built it in your heart. And are ready to build anything. Show us your destiny!



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      This is the dirt. What is dirt? It is the life force for which feeds us. A bounty so powerful it may question your very desire to eat meat. I love meat. I love soil. I love live animals. I love live plants. Thoughts are powerful. And we must think. To Thrive.
      Art is in our soil. We have produced a soil comprised of four very different bio dynamic enviornments. Meaning each enviornment the four soils were collected from were very diffrent in their locations, altitude, built of diffrent bio degradable organic materials that were naturaly left in the mostly wooded enviornments.
      At first thought one would think... I go in the woods, I dig a hole, I put the contents in a movable devise, put it in my green house and blammmmoo!.
     Not so folks. You have a massive root system that is your forest floor you must penetrate. You have to first accomplish scouting your micro climates in your properties range and determine their fertility levels or what I call awesome black goldness boost factor. This can take days depending on your territory. Then you have to get there, labor it up, get the lawn mower unstuck because you don't have a real tractor yet. THEN! then then then. You have to unload and think about doing it again, again, again, in another location.
     I have news for you. The picture above, my health and ability to self sustain and produce, and reproduce, Has made me prouder than I think I ever could be. To show my kids, my family, and everything around me. That's where I want to be.

      And finally, after miles of reading. Here is the most exallent shelf Rick put up. This is for seeding what we havent already planted of the cold hearty fall/winter crop we are producing at this time.
      Tho it has been cold as can be and it is warm and humid in the green house. With the soil setting warmer than I describe the air. Plants that would other wise die are surviving.
       Finally take note of the natural beems we used from a harvest of the woods. Some 2x4's we had in stock already from old construction jobs proved handy and accounted for most the 100$ eexpense we discussed.

Thank you for reading and existing,
On-Ward, Fore-Ward!