JacobSpringsFarm:Weekly agenda

Monday, June 27, 2016

• Barn: small door and rear wall siding
• water pipes for washing machines
• Tent walls and light fixture
• consolidate and chop old wood
• Research adding hydraulics to rear of tractor (Surplus center in NE)
• Forklift and tractor - fluid and oil changes
• build pen for dogs

Monday, June 20, 2016

Butchering process Thursday and Friday

• clean up bandsaw
• collect knives
• sharpen knives
• clean and clear workspace

• Get out paper, labeler, grinder (put working bits in the freezer) slicer
• get out, clean and organize meat racks (speed racks)

Thursday

• making primals: separate shoulder, loin, belly and leg
• debone primals: leg, shoulder, loin
• loin chops cut & wrapped & labeled

• fabricate cuts
• wrap and label

=Regular stuff

• Buy a 2 5/16" ball
• buy a adjustable guide wheel
• mow the lawn
• buy bearings for swather
• buy nuts, bolts and lock washers for swather
• repair swather - bolts and bearings
• clean out poultry rooms
• Continue irrigation - clean screens in Ky
• Set big telephone pole
• Scrap metal trailer - take away
• Load up pallets
• Eggmobile - Danny
• Wood chips by outhouse
• spread wood chips in "outhouse" bed
• Tool bar - mark out 3 row beds for Amaranthus and bachelor buttons
• use motorcycle to compress furrows
• Install check valve and fix solar water pumping
• pickup trash
• Sourdough - Kelly and Kate
• Rosewater - Kelly and Kate
• Say goodbye to Joe! "Argentina here I come!"
• Farm and smoke is coming on the 29th from 4-8

• homework for tuesday: Is Organic Better?

• Plant talk: Ashley Wednesday: Lambs quarters, (wild spinach Quinopodium)

Monday, June 13, 2016

• Move goats and pen to First Pres church for missions week
• create a wiki page called "so you want to borrow my truck"

Vehicle maintenance

• Create a maintenance calendar using google cal and share it on the wiki

• yellow Truck
  • Oil change
  • other fluid check
  • tighten right side mirror

• (yellow Truck long term goals:
  • fix stereo speaker connections
  • fix cigarette lighter with USB connection
  • weld floor board patches
  • Weld gooseneck hitch door

• Blue Truck
  • Oil change
  • bleed clutch
  • Replace driver side indicator (the part is somewhere around the farm)
  • come up with a solution for tailgate latch

• (blue Truck long term goals:)
  • add a reservoir for wiper fluid
  • Add a "monkey prison" in the rust hole

• Tractor
  • Oil change
  • check hydraulic fluid and other fluids
  • fix air intake/filter
  • pressure wash radiator

• (Tractor long term goals:)
  • add a hydraulic splitter and valve for rear connection

• Forklift
  • fix everything
  • oil change
  • transmission fluid
  • hydraulic fluid (use motor oil)

• (Forklift long term goals)
  • Resurrect the power steering
  • add turret for power water gun

Monday, June 6, 2016

• get drip line
• get gravel
• Land level the field
• Mark the field
• more water on the field
• strawberries weed
• mark rows on field
• plant melons and more squash

Monday, May 30, 2016

• Cut crates and pull nails
• Install sod
• Fix wheelbarrows
• Install drip line at church
• Install float valves and hose at church
• Rake Hay
• Switch out solar panels on the hill
• Plant squash and melons
• Land level the field
• Mark the field
• Weed the potatoes and garlic
• More water on the field
• pickup all the red stone near outhouse
• Electrical hookup for the tent
• Electrical hookup for the Saw
• Cut paneling for Barn
• design bunkbeds
• Call cackle
• go get the rest of the 1/2" drip line pipe

Monday, May 23, 2016

• weeding
• trench for power to tent
• Move cows & hogs to the church
  • set up fences
  • set up water
  • unload feed
• Finish wall tent

• plant greens, cabbage, Pinto beans and flowers

while Andre and Vanee are gone

• plant asparagus in pots using potting soil from east of the tent
• mulch trees and bushes south of the tank house cardboard and wood chips
• spread wood chips over line of fruit trees and put the irrigation line near the top of the hill
• mulch tree by gate to east pasture, two cherry trees in front of cottage, line of hazelnuts north of cottage,
• carefully mulch small quince tree near where Danny and Rene park
• Plant squash in north half of northern most bed currently prepared

Monday, May 16, 2016

• Move cows & hogs to the church
  • set up fences
  • set up water
  • unload feed
• Finish wall tent
  • trimming
  • posts picked out and set
  • walls built
  • 2 x 130" round posts
  • 1 x 120" round post
  • 4 x 2"x4" x 90"
  • 2 x 2"x4" x 100"
  • 2 x 2x4 55"
  • 2 x 2x4 26"
  • 1 x 4x12 14'

• Plant trees
• Jugaad Irrigation

• Go pick up more crates

• Egg-mobile-roofing
• Call Von miller

• buy 3 X 300' of pipe

• ditch lateral cleanup
• lay header pipe
• store pinto beans
• store vinegar
• make plant tags for apricot and 2 almonds - survey for other untagged plants

Monday, May 9, 2016

• Plant Montrose apricots
• 2 Almond - cold hardy
• Hazelnuts
• Chestnuts

• make plant tags for new trees

• plant carrots & more greens
• plant greens for Wallace bros

• Plant 9 trees at church
• Pigs and prairie dog experiment

• Deck - install cedar decking
• Deck - trim edges

• Stage wood chips for volunteer day Saturday
• Stage cardboard for volunteer day Saturday
• Prep 9 trees and 100+ asparagus plants for planting at BVC Church on saturday

Monday, May 2, 2016

• plant more stuff
• mulch and wood chip-Spreading
• weeding around chives and oregano
• clear stumps east of the woodshed
• move cows to pasture
• get lid thing prepped and in use
• Summer goals: woofer habitat, egg mobile, silo house, root cellar

Wednesday, April 18, 2015

• Andre and Elias get home from Zambia!
• Plant potatoes and onions
• Deep rip the field
• Clean Rototiller - take off plastic from shaft
• Level the field
• Rototill lawn by farm kitchen and garden areas and by tank house
• Plant lawn grasses on the lawn
• Level the lawn
• Rototill Field
• Mark field for planting
• Plant cabbage and greens
• Lauren - Make a plan for perennials, Run it by Vanee and Kelly
• Plant perennials
• Clean up outside the door to the shop
• Clean up area around entrance to the root cellar
• Prepare to put siding on the Eggmobile
• Clean out dead beehives

• cut a bunch of siding for habitat
• cut roofing pieces
• Finish Chicken run
• Dig up hay from goats and steers
• clean out pig pens
• wood chips for garden areas: mulch tulips and daffodils
• mulch herb area carefully (Ask Andre)
• prep tree labels

2 weeks from Monday, April 4, 2015

• Bernardo and/or Ashley - Lauren knows the details: Plant elephant Garlic - along the back of the small edged garden between sidewalk and garage (left of the rhurbarb, - it's ok to dig up the small green garlic but please don't disturb the rhurbab

• Get more wooden crates from Techniques and disassemble - Danny knows how to get them - Joe can show how to dissassemble
• Label the Trees - follow instructions at Labeling fruit trees
• insulate the barn (Joe)
• Get hydraulic line - Longs Peak Equipment (Ashley Purchasing Trip - Ask Vanee for farm card)
• Take Tire back to GCR tires brighton - (Ashley Purchasing Trip - Ask Vanee for farm card)
• plant potatoes (Danny Lead) on the rows that are already peeped but not planted to garlic.
• prep soil (DAnny - Rip, Plow, Rototill)

Monday, March 28, 2015

• get forklift running
• grain in the bin
• muffler on milking machine
• Set post hole for the pen - gates
• rototill mode

Monday March 14, 2016

• Repair the feeder
• prep chick room II
• Insulation
• field work - plow crust - rototill
• seed potatoes
  • purple peruvian
  • yukon gold (33-50%)
  • fingerling
  • Binkje
• purple, with yellow - 33-33-33
• seed starting (eggplant, tomato and peppers)
• bathtub replant - Danny
• meatballs - Lauren
• get forklift running
• muffler on milking machine
• pickup stuff
• drill the last post hole for the pen
• rototill mode

Monday March 7, 2016

• panels for dairy cows
• straw cleanup
• MEAT
• Chicken pen
• Garage
• trash pickup

Monday, 22 February 2016

• 200 chicks ship monday - get them settled in
• Cleanup plastic and trash
• move bed frames and furniture into woodshed
• prepare potting soil
• plant kale and spinach, and greens in greenhouse
• build chicken pen

• organizing tools

Monday, 15 February 2016

• Potting soil and flats preparation for seeding
  • collect and organize the plastic flats
  • prepare a trashcan half full of potting mix
  • Fill trays, get racks ready to move into barn

• Preparing the chick room:
  • Clean out old litter
  • Build a plywood skirt around the room
  • (to protect the wooden walls from rotting due to contact with bedding)
  • Bring in 2" of dry clean bedding such as wood shavings, straw or wood chips

• Plant Sunchokes

• Cleanup plastic and trash

Monday, 1 February 2016

• Inside of barn
• Organize garage
• Get backhoe

Monday, 18 January 2016

• Stockshow!
• New Construction project with Joe. Discuss:
  • tree fort
  • greenhouse
  • taj mahal
  • Cellar Door to house

1. Eggmobile
2. Chicken yard
3. Garage/Tool organization
4. Tankhouse door
5. Urbanite under tank house wall
6. Forklift carburator
7. Take cardboard to recycle
8. Mineral feeder
9. Tree order ad

• VanWell nursery - great prices on good-sized trees
• Nourse farms - great prices for asparagus, strawberries, other berries and perennials

1. Bee order ad

Monday, 2 November 2015

1. oil change tractor
2. recycle cardboard
3. mineral feeder build
4. bunk cow feeder build
5. cottage washing machine
6. prepare yourselves for turkey slaughter
7. laquer door in milking parlor

Monday, 26 October 2015

1. cut beef
2. sharpen knives
3. fix electrical in the barn.
4. watch butchering video

Monday, 19 October 2015

1. Honey sales
2. Repair swather
3. Crayfish harvest
4. leveling the ground by playground again
5. cutting hay, raking and baling
6. buy semen for cows
7. trash burn
8. chicken yard - design/build
9. replace window panes: Rankin bay window
10. sort bundle oak flooring
11. harvest squash
12. repoint chimney
13. retarp hay
14. put up grain
15. clean up kitchen
16. inspect roof leaks

Monday, 12 October 2015

1. roof reinforcement finish
2. Honey sales
3. Repair swather
4. Crayfish harvest
5. Siding for tank house 1/3 done
6. leveling the ground by playground again
7. cutting hay, raking and baling
8. buy semen for cows
9. trash burn
10. chicken yard - design/build
11. replace window panes: Rankin bay window, cottage bathroom
12. unclog cottage bathtub drain
13. Pressure wash south side of barn
14. fix garage door south bay pulley
15. Spread wood chips by farm kitchen door
16. install thermostat into milk cooling chest freezer

Monday, 5 October 2015

1. milk freezer
2. move pigs
3. roof reinforcement finish
4. Honey sales
5. Repair swather
6. Crayfish harvest
7. Siding for tank house 1/3 done
8. leveling the ground by playground again
9. cutting hay, raking and baling
10. buy semen for cows
11. trash burn
12. chicken yard - design/build

Monday, 28 September 2015

1. Honey sales
2. Repair swather
3. crayfish harvest
4. Siding for tank house 1/3 done
5. parts and install and burying of french drain
6. leveling the ground by playground
7. cutting hay, raking and baling
8. buy semen for cows
9. cleanup outside farm kitchen
10. trash sweep and burn
11. chicken yard - design/build
12. basement cleanup YAY!
13. unload and put away 14 beams from Mihaly

Monday, September 21, 2015

1. Honey harvest part 3
2. honey marketing
3. Repairing swather - cutting hay
4. Put up more grain
5. Siding for tank house
6. Beet and apple processing
7. plum processing
8. crayfish harvest
9. fix hay tarp
10. move pigs
11. Bring Veronica, Dolly and Walker back from Arvada
12. move cows/calves
13. Dig big hole and trench for biodigester / french drain

Clean Up and Organization

1. Appliance work
2. Garage
3. Pig pens

Kierstyn

1. Walk pastures for trash

Monday, September 14, 2015

1. Complete Food Inventory (Ashley+Andre) update spreadsheet
2. Ashley create drying herbs step-by-step article
3. Ashley make and package tons of burritos!
4. Honey harvest part
5. Repairing swather - cutting hay
6. Put up more grain
7. Business plan for Bob's property
8. Siding -cut and organize

Danny

1. Cleanup under tree in farm kitchen
2. work on chicken run cleanout

Harvesting

1. Check for apple trees
2. Harvest wild plums
3. harvest bumper crop of tomatoes

Monday, September 7, 2015

1. Lamb Butcher, CSA week - 13 lambs
2. Honey harvest part 1
3. Put up grain
4. Organize Garage
5. Organize Farm Kitchen
6. Stock-up Basement freezer
7. Put up some grain
8. Band Practice :)
9. Infrastructure

Monday, August 31, 2015

1. Move calves to paneled pen
2. Move geese to east pasture
   1. prepare gate
3. Final Irrigation of field
4. Sausage Party
   1. Defrost Tuesday
   2. Publicity: the city, Facebook, email
5. Fix Swather, mow
6. Honey harvest
7. Fix auger
8. some Grain into bin
9. Rotate tanks