Water

Rain and runoff at the farm

It has certainly been a wet and windy weekend at Roaring Creek Ranch!  The upper pond was nearly full, but the lower pond was several feet below full…until this storm arrived. The animals are wet, but they quickly move into the shelter of the barn during the heaviest rains. We learned […]

Farm Status

Big pond drops after irrigating fields

We started irrigating fields on July 25 and finished the last sprinkler set on August 13.  Irrigation water comes from the big pond in the northeast corner of the farm, and that pond is fed from underground springs. How much did the pond drop? Between the hot weather in August […]

Animals

Sprinkler moved to new field

This morning, we finished irrigating the field along Ferguson road. The sprinkler and pipe were moved to the field immediately east of the driveway, called the Center field. Our first sprinkler set today was four hours in the northwest corner of Center field. We are looking forward to getting our […]