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Our Agrarian Year: Spring Project List

Wednesday, March 16, 2022 0:01

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March (the old agrarian new year) marks the beginning of spring, which is planting season! Our project prioritizing motto is “food first.” So, hopefully, we’ve gotten the maintenance and winter projects to a good stopping point, so we can set everything else aside to focus on planting. Even if we haven’t, this seasonal project takes priority over everything else, save emergencies.

Seasonal

Planting

Annual food crops
Pasture forage

Cleaning out the barn (of which the winter’s accumulation of deep litter is spread across newly planted areas in the pasture)

Prepare for April kidding

Infrastructure

Continue working on swales

We hoped to get further on the swale project during winter, but we have a couple of obstacles to deal with for which there are no easy solutions.

Obstacle 1:

Big pile of dirt where the swale needs to go.

That pile came from the old swimming pool, which Dan dug out to see if we could do anything useful with it. That’s where he put the dirt, and that’s where it’s stayed for over two years now. Our tractor doesn’t have a front end loader, and trying to move it all by hand is a discouraging idea, so there it’s sat.

Obstacle 2 is related, i.e., lack of equipment to move the dirt and dig the swales. We dug the garden swale by hand, which was fine, but pasture swales will be much larger undertakings. We’ll probably end up renting something; not a cheap option, but certainly cheaper than buying equipment.

Miscellaneous

These are things we need/want to do but which haven’t made it to the top of the list yet. It’s an ongoing list that is good to keep at hand, in case weather, time, necessity, or change of plans allows us to tackle them. This list never goes away, because as we cross things off, we add things too.

Finalize design and materials list for masonry heater (construction will be a summer project)
Do something useful with our remaining two solar panels
Finish the exterior of the house

Of the house exterior, this is all that’s left . . .

Last exterior wall in need of new siding and paint.

Not much, is it? So you’d think it would be done by now! The holdup here is that we’ve discussed adding on a small greenhouse here, but so far haven’t been able to decide/design what we want to do. And that’s why it’s been on the project list for so many years! Maybe 2022 will be our year of success (???)

So, there it is. A very short list of the projects that will occupy most of our outdoor time this spring.

How about you? What are your plans for spring?

Our Agrarian Year: Spring Project List © March 2022

by Leigh at http://www.5acresandadream.com

Source: https://www.5acresandadream.com/2022/03/our-agrarian-year-spring-project-list.html

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