Skippy wasn't as willing to let me in her pen near her baby now that things are going so well for them. That's okay, Mom does need to protect and bond after such a shaky first couple of steps for her colt, Kid Rock. After a few days with the Doolittles (vet) in El Paso, there seems to be no problem with him rising to feed. Milking a mare was an interesting skill to add to my resume, but nature does it so much better. We are glad see both come home yesterday. We look forward to a trip to our fields soon. Their current residence, at the LNZ Spread, does give wind protection these days, but we definately have more green to much through the warming days of spring.
Each year local ranchers and farmers, in Sierra County, New Mexico, are greeted with the smiling face of Mary Martin, at the plant sale hosted by the Sierra County Soil and Water Conservation District. The plant sale was an effort by SSWCD to offer reduced cost for plants that would be used on your property to reduce erosion. Since last Labor Day Week-End, our experiences with water in the Las Palomas Creek we realize that we will need to aid nature in growing a root system that will stand up to the fast moving and very high reaching, waters in the creek. We have 50 + Plants to put in over the next week or so. I've got some things that are native to our area and might actually have some traits, such as to spread roots and to hang on to the hill side. Our road is just the other side of the plantings, so we hope these will grow quickly. You never know what will pop up with the next season.We will also be creating habit by virtue of planting things that these organisms require to live, we wanted to select some native species as well as those that will do a good job with
Examples of this year's plants:
Apache Plume
Cottonwood
Butterfly Bush
Lavendar
Desert Willow
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