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08/09/2026

Tractor doesn’t have down pressure to push the undercutter/bed lifter into the ground. I also dont have weights that attach to help push it down. so I’m using my weight to sink it under the soil as we pull the tractor forward. Good to have a tractor driver to call in when needed!
It hasn’t rained much here, think we are at 3/4 inch for the month of July. The ground is a parking lot while doing this.

08/07/2026

Our Lisianthus season is coming to an end. If you want a bouquet make sure to make it to the Brookfield farmers market this Saturday (8/7). Might be the last week of lisi bouquets. Every year its my favorite!
Sad to end the lisi season but that just means its starting to be dahlia time!

08/05/2026

Nightly ritual post owl trouble: move goose caboose to fresh grass, give fresh water, give organic feed, herd everyone into the caboose. In the morning we open the door and they get to spend the day w**ding the hazelnut rows (hypothetically). We were noticing the hazelnut rows the geese have graised do have less w**ds, but they’re not super thorough. I mean they have all day… maybe they could double check their work, make sure they get all the w**ds before heading in for the night. I do see a good amount of lounging during the day if I’m being honest. So far I would give their w**d management a “C” but my overall enjoyment of them an “A”.

07/29/2026

Sunflowers are fun to grow. They aren’t fussy. They require little water and care. They bloom consistently. They last a long time in a vase. We have been planting sunflowers every week since the start of May We ran out of space in our between the Chestnut tree alley cropping spot and this week we are planting on the other side of the flower farm where we rotated pigs last year and they rooted up the area a bit too much. Smoothing everything out with sunflowers 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

07/27/2026

Sadly we lost some geese… at first we thought it was a raccoon and the fence was being shorted out by the grass. We re-mowed where the fence is to remove any tall grass. We also wreath the caboose in chicken wire. The next night lost another goose… realized it was an owl as the only way in was something that could fly. So we enclosed the full caboose in chicken wire and added a door. So far no more losses. Caboose still moves with 1 man power, not heavy enough to need a tractor yet. Nature…

07/22/2026

We have this upcoming problem: we planted 4000 dahlias this year. Which means we in our Wisconsin climate we will have to dig up the tubers (roots) of 4000 dahlias and store them in our basement for the winter as it gets too cold for them to survive in the ground here. Last year we planted less (1600) and I dug them all up with a pitch fork. Not a scalable solution.

Garlic is the solution! Well kind of. I also planted several pant loads of garlic. In my incessant FB marketplace searching I found this undercutter/subsoiler. I was thinking this might be able to replace my Broadfork as a soil compaction reduction tool and also help lift tubers and garlic from underneath making them easier to pull out of the soil. Garlic test complete and this thing officially rocks! It worked great. Normally you buy some weights for it ti help it dig down into the soil. We don’t have those yet so we just stood on it. Also it hasn’t rained here in a very long time so the ground is very dry. It will be interesting to test in our clay soil when it is wetter. More to come on that. But also anyone local need a tractor bucket of garlic?

07/19/2026

Flower farming: Lisianthus are blooming! Such an elegant looking flower that lasts long in a vase, definitely one of my favorites. We will be bringing lots to the Brookfield, WI farmers market over the next month, once they are all cut we will be in full dahlia season. So come see us at the farmers market!

07/17/2026

Our diy flower cooler is keeping its temps low even in the heat. We made the cooler by adding a lot of insulation to an enclosed trailer. It uses a and a window ac unit to cool. The coolbot is a little computer that takes over controlling the temps the AC unit thinks it is at by putting a little heating diode on the AC units temp sensor. The Coolbot can then make the AC unit cool the space to very low temperatures by heating the AC units temp sensor up and making the AC unit think its warmer than it is so it keeps running, cooling to a lower temperature than you can set the AC unit to normally. Doing this the coolbot takes over controlling the temps the AC unit operates to. Its a very cool idea, works great and makes a very affordable way to have a giant cooler.

07/15/2026

Next segment of “I don’t know much about bee keeping but I read some stuff on the internet”. We got bees this year. One of the hives is was getting packed so instead of adding more room by adding another hive box (super) we wanted to try to split one hives into 2 to expand our bees.

We did what I read was called a “walk away split”. Instead of buying more bees or another queen we took an existing colony with lots of bees and moved a bunch of frames of that hive that had brood (baby larva bees and eggs) and honey to a new hive. The idea is side of the split the hive would retain the queen and rebuild its population. Then the other side of the split the new hive that has no queen the nurse bees would realize they dont have a queen and create one. They build special cells out of comb that hang off the bottom of the frames called queen cells for this purpose. In our split queenless hive we now see lots of these queen cells and that they are “capped” or fully formed with a larva queen inside. The queen should grow and emerge providing this hive with a queen. Basically what we are seeing is in line with what the internet said should happen!

The queen cell you can see the larva in in the video I believe got damaged when I removed the frame from the hive. I think it was attached to the frame below. Sorry bees!

07/13/2026

On the move! The goose caboose (mobile shelter for the geese on our pasture) is doing great. Pretty easy to move across the grass. The geese being still pretty young 4/5 week aren’t eating crazy amounts of grass. They seem to eat mostly in and around the shelter but not venture out very far. So I have been moving the shelter more frequently to try to get more even impact on the field instead of just total distraction under the shelter and nothing anywhere else. Maybe I should be doing Goose mob grazing 200sqft at a time.

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