Stone's Throw Farm

I didn’t get any action shots of my parents at work at Stone’s Throw Farm because I was too busy just trying to keep up with them, but here they are with Elden and me at Stone’s Throw Farm at the end of the day on Friday. Despite all the nice weather we’ve been having, it was chilly most of the time my parents were here, and the wind was relentless. The weekend was beautiful after they left, of course.

I forgot all about the first task my parents and I tackled together — fitting some strips of rubber belting under the endwalls of the hoophouse to keep the weeds out, and putting down old railroad ties down to hold the edges of the plastic.

Here’s what the inside of the hoophouse looks like after my mom rototilled it.  It was not a fun task — the soil was pretty compacted and there were lots of sod chunks — but she insisted on doing it.

 Here’s the start of our deer fence.

Some logs and sapling poles we saved while clearing a spot for the septic mound.  We didn’t really want to use any of our cleared land for the mound, so we decided to tuck it into the woods behind the treeline even though we hate killing trees.

Before they left on Saturday, my parents stopped at the farm to load all their gear into their pickup. Dad also insisted on helping me hook up the cultivator and run it through the area I had disked to see if it helped break up some of the sod and rye clumps (it did, some). They left me feeling way ahead of where I expected to be on April 17, and with a promise to come back with feeder pigs in June. Can’t wait!