Log landing
We cut at least twice as
many tulip-trees last summer as we needed for 2015-2016 firewood. The
trees are so tall that it just made sense to fell all the ones we wanted down while we had the pasture fences out of the way.
Now we're getting ready
to put those fences back up so Artemesia will have a completely
worm-free pasture for the weeks immediately following kidding. That
means cutting those huge logs into manageable sections and hauling them
up the hill to the logging road turned log landing. Once there, we can
take our time turning the trunks into firewood and hauling the wood home
since we learned last year that five months of seasoning is sufficient for this relatively soft wood.
I took advantage of the
canopy-free zone last fall to seed a much larger area than we can
currently afford to fence with orchardgrass and clover. Maybe by the
time I come up with another round of fencing money, the goat-friendly
forage will be tall and luxurious?
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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