Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Re-seeding two pastures

The Eagle tree in the early fall. Note, you can barely make out the Eagle nest.

Every day, we see the Eagles bringing big branches to repair the nest. They must make several "passes" to gain enough altitude to get branches in the nest. Many times they get tired of trying to get a big branch to the nest and just drop it.



The "BORREGOS" pasture in the fall.


This week we are re-seeding two pastures. That is necessary about every five years. When we plant, we use a special 'alta' grass that has about 20 % protein and the roots go down about 12 inches. This is good as the horses can't pull up the plant by the roots.

Also, if you don't re-seed, the native grass, which is very short rooted and about 3% protein, will come back. We will soon put the FARM FOR SALE in a local paper. Sometime, this fall.

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