Ken Campbell
Trees
above: Western red cedar planted under alder. At Soggy bottom Farm, we often pass a book around that is to be reviewed when those who are...
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Farm Life
The Mirro Family moved to Soggy Bottom in 2012.
Ken Campbell
May 12, 20224 min read
Courting Behaviors of Disparate Birds
When the pigs come to the farm in late winter as newly weaned piglets, Jay puts them in a special nursery stall in the barn where they...
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Ken Campbell
May 3, 20226 min read
Parables from Farm Animal Stories
A parable is a story that conveys a lesson, usually a moral lesson. A vignette is a short descriptive literary sketch. I write...
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Ken Campbell
Apr 8, 20228 min read
Balanced Animal Populations
Here on the farm, we wrestle with the proper approach for dealing with our resident predators. Specifically, the local coyotes. After...
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Ken Campbell
Apr 1, 20222 min read
Spring Time
It is the end of March. The first trillium of the spring has just bloomed at the edge of a clearing in the Soggybottom forest. Not far...
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Ken Campbell
Mar 10, 20223 min read
Small Mammals
9 March 2022 Earlier this week, I was taking video of a coyote in the hayfield when the coyote suddenly made a jump and pounced with her...
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Ken Campbell
Mar 4, 20224 min read
Continuing Story
20 February 2022 Earlier in this blog, I posted what I called “A Little Story” about a Sharp-shinned hawk hunting a Towhee in the twiggy...
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Ken Campbell
Mar 3, 20223 min read
Braking Momentum
A Trumpeter Swan is a very large bird; even larger than an eagle. Like an airplane, such a big bird needs to be in motion to be in the...
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ellenmirro
Feb 9, 20222 min read
Public Trail Update
Despite the beauty and pristine native plantings of the Soggy Bottom forest, we inherited a junkyard from the previous owners in the...
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Ken Campbell
Feb 8, 20223 min read
Coyote threatens lambs
Whenever I finish a posting for the Soggy Bottom Farm blog, I wonder what my next post could possibly be. Previous posts seem to cover...
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Ken Campbell
Jan 22, 20223 min read
Little Story on the farm
The Soggy Bottom blog provides me the opportunity to tell stories about the farm. I look for and discover these stories from two...
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Ken Campbell
Jan 14, 20224 min read
Transition Into 2022
The transition from 2021 to 2022 on the farm was unusually eventful this year. The first event was the arrival of Leo, home on his first...
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Ken Campbell
Dec 19, 20213 min read
Run-up to Winter Solstice
Short, grey winter days are not an effective stimulus for creating a set of interesting blog notes. But life goes on regardless of the...
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Ken Campbell
Nov 26, 20213 min read
Farm Dogs
There are two dogs on the farm; both are medium large (60-75 lbs) mutts of indeterminate ancestry including some elements of pitt bull....
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Ken Campbell
Nov 16, 20213 min read
November Rain
The seasonal pattern of rain on the farm is such that the rains begin in earnest in Mid-October. By mid-November, those parts of the...
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Ken Campbell
Nov 1, 20213 min read
Autumn Chores on the Farm
As noted previously in this blog, seasons dictate what goes on on the farm. The transition from summer to fall is the time for a host of...
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Ken Campbell
Oct 30, 20213 min read
Red-Eyed Birds
Among the 50 or so bird species that visit the farm, two have red eyes. Yes, really, red eyes. Most birds have brown/black eyes; a few...
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Ken Campbell
Oct 26, 20213 min read
Local Rivers
Everywhere I have lived, the local river provided the presence, the ambiance, and the connection to the landscape that contributed...
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Ken Campbell
Oct 19, 20212 min read
Farm Predators
At one time or other in their lives, all the animals on the farm are potential prey for one or more of the numerous local predators. ...
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