Pasture Grass

Last year, in March, (seems so long ago, but then again feels like yesterday) we had the big field industrially burnt, limed (6 and a half tons) and drilled with Orchard Grass Mix. It has been a long time coming, fertizling and grooming, to make this grass crop sustainable. Next step: fencing it in.

When we originally fenced in the currently used pasture, it took us several weeks. We were under a serious time constraint to move the boys from their temporary boarding barn to the farm, the penalty being paying another month of board.

We worked weekends, after work, and our week of vacation. Some of those days were hot, some delays for rain, etc. We had to rent a jack-hammer to drill 16 fence post holes, three in a row being 30 inches of solid rock. Oh, the memories.

We need to do this again, but on a much larger scale. The first pasture has 140 fence posts. The new one can easily be double that, I can't wrap my head around the actual math of the situation, but know we need to get this going. Might hire some help, but mostly we can do lots of this ourselves.

Last night he set up the portable corral in a small section with the new grass. By the time he got it installed and batteries charged up it was dark. KC in particular was wary of the new fencing, but Skip dove right in. We kept them out there for over an hour, pulling up lawn chairs to enjoy the evening and the sight of content horses.