Oak Meadow Progress

Oak Meadow Farm Fall 2013

     The farm has come a long way from the early days. Many improvements have been added. Barn improvements to the dairy parlor, a new loft, an addition to the north side, have turned the barn into a more functional farm building. Rebuilding much of the deteriorating siding on the barn, and adding a foundation prepared the way for a new coat of red paint. It looks great!

original color

the new red

Soil improvement include liberal amounts of compost and manure spread over much of the land which had lain fallow for years, and perhaps had never been fertilized. 


                                                                                                                                                                                                      We added more fruit trees, and brought the ones already on the property back into shape, we put in strawberries, raspberries, black berries, currents, blue berries and more. 






We fenced and cross fenced, installed a new watering system which we are still working on. We put in walk ways, built a meat locker, and a nice green house. There are still many more projects planned for the future. It is amazing what two people can do,(with a lot of help) plodding along over time, taking it one step at a time.

Today we have five milk cows in our line up, and some young heifers getting ready to step up. We make cheese twice a week, and are beginning to get quite good at it.                                                      

Mozzarella, Italian style

We have five Duroc hogs now; a boar and 4 sows producing lots of little piggies, they make good use of the leftover whey from cheese making, plus the garden and fruit tree wastes. We have a draft horse in training to do work around the farm, we built a chicken pasture, pens for our milking goats, and are working on a fodder system. We put in a worm bed, constructed several garden areas, dug a new pond, converted some closet space into a nice pantry, and we are working on converting our laundry into a cheese making room, building an out door pizza oven and much more. It has been quite exciting.