Our farm is evolving in small but significant ways. I don’t have the money I had in the glory days of Bedlam Farm 1.0, we are evolving in smaller, more thoughtful steps. We have cleared out all of the dirt, junk piles, tires from behind the barn. We brought in truckloads of gravel and put in gutters to keep water away from the barn, keep mud bogs from forming, improve the draining.

We fenced and opened up the  Lulu’s Crossing pasture in the rear of the farm, a significant step and yesterday our friend Jack MacMilllan rode his tractor over clear away some of the rocks to make a path to the water in the pond we opened up earlier this year for the animals. This means we don’t have to haul water out every morning in the bitter cold (when it’s storming, we will put out a heated water bucket to keep the animals warm.)

Simon was checking out the new path to the water – before the rocks got slippery and difficult in the snow and ice – and the animals will need to pack it down. Bit by bit, we are getting there, we love our new home and we relish the challenge of thinking about it and getting it in shape.