Runamuk Acres Conservation Farm
Soil-first farming, building health from the ground up!
The word came early this morning that our new trailer had arrived at the Ames Mobile Home Center in Canaan, and the Ames’ crew were bound for our farm-site with equipment and machinery. Barely able to contain ourselves we drove out to meet them. When we arrived we were greeted by the sight of heavy…
It was painful to visit the farm after we were forced to move into town. And easier to avoid it, even though the old trailer sat there, rotting away, and needing to be cleared out. The mess nagged at my conscience, but still we left it. It remained a scourge upon the land, a hideous…
At the start of the year I’d deemed 2013 the “Year of the House”. I do that…give a theme to each year, and a word to live by. I pick a handful of very specific goals for the year–not a resolution, but–improvements of my person or my life, goals that I want to accomplish, and…
We lived there once before…did I ever mention that? The site of the Runamuk farm of tomorrow. My blog was known then as The Scientific Homeschool, and I was raising babies in the woods without plumbing. I put together the “Chronological History of the World Unit-Studies for Secular Homeschoolers” (yeah-say that 3 times fast!) –so…
I haven’t written in a while, I know. It’s been a difficult summer for me, to say the least. And it’s been hard enough to admit to myself that we’re not moving, let alone admitting it to the world in writing here on the blog. We’ve attempted construction loans with 2 banks, and failed.
It’s long process when you’re building your farm from the ground up. I knew this when we chose this route–we could have bought an established homestead with less hassle that would have given us a jump on our farming ambitions. But with land in the family that we are historically tied to, leaving Burns Road…
It was a family affair yesterday morning as we moved the first of our hives to what will soon be the new home of the Runamuk farm. Currently we have a total of 6 hives. 4 reside at Medicine Hill, an organic farm in Starks–just 6 miles away, and 2 have been happily situated in…