Recap from Part 6: 2020 would be another year struggling to build up the farm. We would tackle a 500 tap Maple sugarbush install, tapping Birch trees and making Birch syrup for the first time, haying, selling and buying equipment, and learning to operate and run an excavator. By the end of the year we would have momentum and fruits from our previous years of hard labor.
2021 would be a break away year. One for building momentum upon our farm operation.
Imagine 2018, our first year of farming as a little snowball rolling down a hill. As it rolled past 2019 and 2020 it gathered more snow and speed as it headed towards 2021. 2021 was our year for pressing down on the accelerator, the year our farm felt like a farm and not a dumpster fire rolling down hill while chasing behind with a empty fire extinguisher.
Infrastructure projects were abundant!
To include venturing out and doing a 250 tap sugarbush install for another local business owner.
Our long list of projects would include: Dump pasture clearing and fencing, additional 4 acres pasture clearing, finalizing book publishing, high tunnel install, retaining wall, digging a farm pond, building sugarbush roads, installing additional 160 taps, birthing baby calfs, tending to a hurt dog and calf, seeing a wild Moose , cider press, and geothermal water install to name a few…. but as we go along, I bet you there is something that I missed……
But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. - Micah 4:1 KJV
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