The Bovine Bugle

Farmer Jonathan explains how he uses wood from his land

A reader wrote in to ask if we use the hardwood harvested from our farm for furniture or flooring (see April 5 entry below).

While I don't use any of my trees for furniture, yet, the oak floor in my house was milled from red oak I cut in our woodlot. I have over a thousand feet of various harwoods waiting in stacked piles for some future use. Also, the new section of my house, the Horsebarn, the sugarhouse, and the heifer pole barn are all built with white pine, hemlock, and eastern larch (tamarack) cut and sawn here on the farm.

I sold the load of hardwood logs mentioned earlier to help finance the purchase of some haying equipment for use this summer.

--Jonathan (left), Howmars Farm
Franklin, Vermont

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Posted by Blogger Chris at April 19, 2006 02:56 PM