Category: Experimental Work Farm
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Know any one can make it rain?
“Right as rain,” my farming Grandma Rose (1885-1979) would say when she agreed with something. We are headed toward bad drought here in southern Wisconsin. A major moisture malfunction and the future looks dry as a Taliban tavern. 10% chance of showers Friday, 40% Friday night, and 30% Saturday. That’s it for the next seven…
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Air quality alert for SW side of Madison!
Due to mid-course correction on Allis Chalmers G project Restoration on the Experimental Farm’s 1949 Allis Chalmers model G tractor is underway! It’s a tractor we grew up with as kids 60 years ago. (!) (More here.) Cute as a lady bug. Hoping to get thumbs up to line up in the Orchard Ridge Independence…
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June 2021, the crazies come crawling
Let’s leave Crazy to the Left Memorial Day weekend has come and gone and with it a brief outpouring of America the beautiful. Madison WI and the nation are now back to full on crazy. So far, the Left has a slight lead on my conservative right for bat-zip crazy. Sharp-eyed readers will notice that…
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We’re going to seed at the Werkes
Making the world a better place! We first acquired Stately Blaska Manor and the Experimental Work Farm 30 years ago via force of arms. The previous overseers mowed from fence to fence, right up to the manor house. Only years later did the Head Groundskeeper discover that, in one of those mowings, the machine collided…
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Our garden eats well
The soil is hungry Growing up on the farm, swear I saw Father taste the soil. Have not inherited that practice but your bloggeur does like to get down and dirty. Back in the day, we had a real live compost pile on the back 40 here at Blaska Experimental Work Farm (and Penal Colony).…