Unity Farm Journal - First Week of October

The drought has taken its toll on the Fall color, with leaves going from green to brown then dropping off the trees.  The mornings are crisp - in the 50 ’s and the afternoons barely reach 70.  The shadows are long and the hoop house loses sunlight at 3pm.  The lettuces and spinaches are thriving in the early fall weather and the furry animals relish the cooler climate.Each week is filled with harvest work and the effort to move Unity Farm Sanctuary forward.  We ’re finishing the inspections and well testing of the adjacent property this week and hopefully will progress to a formal purchase and sale next week.  I ’m already planning the new trails between the two properties - I’ll call them the Pine Loop, the Pond Trail, and the Coyote Path.  When I ’m done, the combined farm and sanctuary will have 3 miles of trails.The Sanctuary will have an educational mission with an animal care training area, a mushroom cultivation area, a flower CSA, a farmer cider demonstration area, and sustainable agriculture instruction classrooms.The new property will have 3 new paddocks and a 5 stall barn.  We ’re already begin contacted by folks who have animals needing new homes.  Likely our first addition will be a pair of donkeys - one age 12 an one age 20.  They can live 30-50 years with the right conditions.  We ’ve been offered sheep, alpaca, and goats.  We ’ve thought about our ability to deliver the compa...
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