We Did it! The Cows are all Dry for the Winter

We did our last milking of the season on Monday, so now we are able to focus on some other projects while the cows are on maternity leave.  Ron will continues to study and experiment with a variety of permaculture projects and garden plans.
He'll continue to work on building hugelkulturs (mound gardens), learning to grow mushrooms, and experimenting with a variety of methods for starting fruit trees.  Eventually, we'd like to see this farm produce even more "calories per acre" than it does now.  There's a lot of potential here, but it takes a lot of time and labor.
   Of course, the cows still need daily care.  Here they are following Ron to a fresh pasture of standing hay.