The happenings of Canoga Creek Farm & Conservancy.
There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.
We've been really lucky. Our winter was pretty dry, but not as dry as some recent ones. We got quite a bit of snow in March, and that got a good start on things, but then it really dried up. But the last couple of weeks we've gotten quite a bit more snow.
Almost all our heifers have calved now, and we branded a bunch of cows (not calves) last week. There too, we were lucky. It was a beautiful morning, and it started to cloud up and rain that afternoon.
So far, calving has gone very well. If it holds, we should be off to a good start this year.
The Canoga Creek Farm and Conservancy properties are located in the heart of Upstate New York's Finger Lakes region and overlook scenic Cayuga Lake. Canoga Creek Farm and Conservancy, situated in the Canoga Creek watershed, includes many acres of the Canoga Marsh. Canoga, or "Ga-no-geh" as the native Cayuga people called it, means "place of the sweet water," and has long been known as a place of abundant fish and fowl. Canoga Creek Farm and Conservancy is a family farm operation focused on sustainability through the celebration and preservation of rural lifestyles and the conservation of agrobiodiversity and natural resources.
Conservation farming puts first things first by attending to the needs of the soil—by seeing to it that the starting-off place, the base, is put into sound health and kept that way. Any other approach, no matter what it may be, always has and always must lead eventually to agricultural disaster.
If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
3 comments:
Here too.
Makin out ok? Not too wet or cold that way? We could actually use some rain here...
We've been really lucky. Our winter was pretty dry, but not as dry as some recent ones. We got quite a bit of snow in March, and that got a good start on things, but then it really dried up. But the last couple of weeks we've gotten quite a bit more snow.
Almost all our heifers have calved now, and we branded a bunch of cows (not calves) last week. There too, we were lucky. It was a beautiful morning, and it started to cloud up and rain that afternoon.
So far, calving has gone very well. If it holds, we should be off to a good start this year.
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