Farm Status

Applying lime with a fertilizer cart

District staff recently applied 10 tons of pelletized lime to 5.6 acres of grass field at the Beavercreek Demonstration Farm. That is an application rate of about 1.78 tons/acre. We used a fertilizer cart from Wilbur Ellis to do this, because we wanted to see how this device might work […]

Farm Status

Farmhouse bathroom repairs

Those of you who own or maintain a house know there is always something that needs to be done. In our case, the water heater started leaking early in August. The water heater is in the bathroom, and we began to notice some buckling of the linoleum flooring that was […]

Animals

Birds! We have birds!

Well, of course we have birds at the farm, but what kind of birds?  A fellow volunteered to help identify birds and yesterday, a walk through the farm revealed 10 bird species. He identified: 1 Great Blue Heron 1 Northern Flicker 2 Steller’s Jay 4 Western Scrub-Jay 30 Barn Swallow 1 […]