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As a result of all the crow feeding we spent many, many more hours and days working on the corn maze than I had planned. When the time came to choose a theme for the maze, the choice was clear. Crows in the corn was the theme of my summer.
In the end, we were faced with a number of areas in the corn maze where there was hardly any corn plants to see. This is usually not a good thing to find in a maze of corn. To make use of those spaces and to add to the maze-solving fun we embedded five additional walk-through mazes and two labyrinths inside the corn maze. This is, after all, Dr. Maze’s Farm.
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Tags:corn maze·photos·wildlife
What do you need to farm? If you were starting a farm from scratch, what would you need to pull together to make a go of it? As the year progresses I’ll look at tasks such as planting or weeding. I’ll show how to create a corn maze and how to set a fencepost. I’ll show some photos and describe our equipment and why we made the choices we’ve made. Every farm and farmer is different, this series will reflect my own personal experiences and biases.
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Tags:farm·farmer·photos·soil·techniques·tools
May 10th, 2009 · Comments Off · Crops
These are the first of a series of flower photos taken at the farm. I took these on Friday, May 8. Friday was the first day I noticed that the blueberries had started blooming. The flowers are fairly inconspicious, a bit smaller in size than a pea. You have to get close to the plants to [...]
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Tags:apples·blossoms·blueberries·flowers·photos
