I’m starting a new category today, Reviews, to lay out some of the successes and failures of miscellaneous farm products that we’ve tried over the years. I’ll eventually tackle electric fence and water equipment, but here I’ll address predator deterrents. When the owls and coyotes first started to be a problem with our pastured poultry [...]

Reducing our environmental footprint is one of the overriding goals of our lives here on the farm, and we accomplish that in many different ways. One of the things I’ve planned for a while and only recently installed was a Breezecatcher Clothes Dryers.   Solar powered! Our electricity is from Western Oregon Electric Co-op. While [...]