Spring Update from the farm.

It has been a wet year. Not that I am complaining but it seems I am always waiting for things to dry out.
The swales are full still from all the snow we had and then all of the spring rain.
I did get 15 apple tree planted and some cover crops in.
So let's take a look of some of the things that happened this spring.

My new work horse showed up. She's a Grillo 107 D 2-Wheel Tractor from Italy. She has an 11hp Honda engine on board. So far I have been impressed in how well she handles. In a couple weeks I am finally going to get to see how well the tiller works in my clay soil.

The 47" cutter bar cuts through weeds and small tree saplings like they were butter.

Below are the tiller and disk harrow. I need to get some pics of the tiller in action.

After doing some earthwork with the disk harrow I planted some Pearl Millet and some
White Clover to get some cover crop covering the bare ground from all the swale work.

One of my disk harrowed patches before seed planted.

 This is the millet starting to sprout up.

I planted some White clover on Swale 1 & 2. I have not been out lately to see how well it is doing.

Here is the swale berm after using the disk harrow.

I will provide an update on the apple trees and the SARE Grant work later.

I was blessed to go out to the farm one afternoon and see that one of the newly
planted apple trees had actually bloomed.
How cool is this!

Stay tuned. There will be more updates in July.