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S&B Bell Farms in Hodgenville, KY started out with a purely functional purpose: to make good use of land that we own. Over the months, the concept of alpaca farming has branched out to several other areas of farming. In order to run a sustaining farm, we realized that we needed to consider the interconnectedness of the land and the animals, and to provide the best environment that we can for both.
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I’ve mentioned many times that we put our animals to work on the farm, doing the jobs that are most natural to them.
Here, you can see Juliet showcasing her excellent tree trimming services 🤣
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I spy with my little eye…
(I wonder what “brood” he belongs to! www.discovery.com/nature/Cicadas-come-out-summer)
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The annual one!
Our friend Kim reminded me that just like wooly worms, persimmon seeds are also excellent predictors of winter weather!!
According to The Persimmon Lady from the Farmers Almanac - you should check 10 seeds to get an accurate reading. I only did 1 tonight, but I will definitely be doing the full 10 over the weekend!
Want to get the “official” winter weather forecast from the persimmons of S&B? Be sure to sign up for our weekly newsletter, and we will share our findings next week 🥄🍴
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I like the post but not the prediction!!!!
didn't know you had a newsletter! If you announced it here earlier, I missed it. I just signed up. As for seeds as predictors, I am reminded of one of my professors, the late Bob Blust, who pointed out that "despite their lack of scientific understanding—preliterate peoples were and are capable of highly accurate observations of the natural world. Where their thinking differs most markedly from that of most readers of this book is with regard to notions of causality. It is easy enough for someone with no understanding of science to describe what s/he sees in the world about him in considerable detail, but it is far more difficult for that person to explain why the observations take the form they have." - brill.com/display/title/68234 Obviously the compilers of the Farmers Almanac were literate, but like their illiterate ancestors, they were also highly observant. One might say they occupied the sweet spot of being able to preserve their observations in writing. Being observant, they noticed correlations between persimmon seeds and winter weather. Noticing was a matter of survival for farmers.
We finally got the very last of the pears tonight - just in time for the next fall harvest. I am so excited, we have a persimmon tree on the new property!!!
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Is the "new property" the land you recently acquired adjacent to your existing property?
We had a really big weekend at the farm!! Mid-September always means we introduce our ram in with the ewes.
On Saturday, we did herd health on the girls first, checking their FAMACHA, clipping toenails if necessary… and then we did the same for “Big Daddy” Mattie. We are looking forward to a fantastic lambing season in February!!!
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Do you have any young ram lambs left this year?
had to look up FAMACHA! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAMACHA
had to look up FAMACHA! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAMACHA