https://bzimmer.ziclix.com/tags/work-party/ Recent content in Work-Party on Hugo en Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:47:17 +0100 https://bzimmer.ziclix.com/2009/06/21/water-farming-dandelions/ Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://bzimmer.ziclix.com/2009/06/21/water-farming-dandelions/ <p>Water access and rights inhabit more farming conversations than just about any other topic. This weekend and last the <a href="https://www.friendsofthefarms.org/">TWL</a> installed a new irrigation system for the orchard, p-patches, horses and farms at Johnson Farm &ndash; the water is pumped from the pond and makes it way through underground pipes. Yesterday we finished laying the pipe and backfilled the majority of the trench.</p> <figure> <a data-fancybox="Water, farming, dandelions." href="https://photos.smugmug.com/i-rLcZHQR/0/M/i-rLcZHQR-M.jpg" data-caption="flowers in the trench"> <img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/i-rLcZHQR/0/M/i-rLcZHQR-M.jpg" alt="flowers in the trench"> </a> <figcaption>flowers in the trench</figcaption> </figure> <p>My daughter added her manpower: picking up rocks, backfilling with her very own rake and sprucing up the scar while it heals.</p>