That
madeline is a wild baby goat always crawling through the part of the fence that i put upside down, doing 360 tail grabs off of the playground we set up for her, but the even more magnificent thing that has happened since she was born is that
floretta has calmed down her neediness towards us humans.
We have had 7
bardrock laying hens for about two weeks now and they are supplying us with about an average of 3 eggs per day right now so it has cut down the cost of the one grocery item that we actually buy for now, but soon we will never have to buy another carton of eggs again once all 25 chickens start laying those magnificent sources of protein. Noel and i tagged teamed this chicken tractor from some plans that we got online, well actually just by looking at the structure and just going with it. Noel built the yard and i built the house cause he seems to think that my carpentry skills over-powers his, which they might but he is coming up strong with all of the pointers that i shout at him every now and again. But all in all the project looks great and once we get a rain barrel we will set up a gutter system to catch the water from the roof and have it go right to the chickens
waterer.
We finally got the first
hugelkulture bed finished and planted with some potatoes last week which was nice cause that was a pain to find all of that rotting wood without taking away the vital force of the forest. We also made another one last week cause we have too many potatoes for just one or three, and we tried a different approach for the new one which was not to dig out 6 inches of soil to put the logs in which was a relief for our backs. So now we are going to just have to build a couple of raised beds to house the rest of the potatoes that we have.
Summer crisp lettuce that we seeded out and just got put outside awaiting to be transplanted into the ground hopefully very soon, so that we can see how much of a deer problem we are going to have.
The apple tree's that we have are blooming real nice even though it has been raining for what seems to have been weeks to me and i cant wait to just pick one off and just devour it on site.
Our last
dumpstering attempt that has trumped any
ive been apart of so far here, we actually had to pull noel out of the dumpster cause we already had 5 full boxes and we had just skimmed to top of the dumpster which is a beautiful thing at least to us.
The ones with the purple centers are going to delicious once they sprout, so watch out.
I got to try my hand at seeding out some peppers, peas, lettuce and primitive marigolds the other day when it was cold and rainy outside, i looked today and saw the first
sprouting's of the peppers today which made me very happy to have bleached my hands that day to avoid giving the peppers tobacco mosaic disease.
That madeline is a wild baby goat always crawling through the part of the fence that i put upside down, doing 360 tail grabs off of the playground we set up for her, but the even more magnificent thing that has happened since she was born is that floretta has calmed down her neediness towards us humans. 
We have had 7 bardrock laying hens for about two weeks now and they are supplying us with about an average of 3 eggs per day right now so it has cut down the cost of the one grocery item that we actually buy for now, but soon we will never have to buy another carton of eggs again once all 25 chickens start laying those magnificent sources of protein. Noel and i tagged teamed this chicken tractor from some plans that we got online, well actually just by looking at the structure and just going with it. Noel built the yard and i built the house cause he seems to think that my carpentry skills over-powers his, which they might but he is coming up strong with all of the pointers that i shout at him every now and again. But all in all the project looks great and once we get a rain barrel we will set up a gutter system to catch the water from the roof and have it go right to the chickens waterer.
We finally got the first hugelkulture bed finished and planted with some potatoes last week which was nice cause that was a pain to find all of that rotting wood without taking away the vital force of the forest. We also made another one last week cause we have too many potatoes for just one or three, and we tried a different approach for the new one which was not to dig out 6 inches of soil to put the logs in which was a relief for our backs. So now we are going to just have to build a couple of raised beds to house the rest of the potatoes that we have.
Summer crisp lettuce that we seeded out and just got put outside awaiting to be transplanted into the ground hopefully very soon, so that we can see how much of a deer problem we are going to have.
The apple tree's that we have are blooming real nice even though it has been raining for what seems to have been weeks to me and i cant wait to just pick one off and just devour it on site.
Our last dumpstering attempt that has trumped any ive been apart of so far here, we actually had to pull noel out of the dumpster cause we already had 5 full boxes and we had just skimmed to top of the dumpster which is a beautiful thing at least to us.
The ones with the purple centers are going to delicious once they sprout, so watch out.
I got to try my hand at seeding out some peppers, peas, lettuce and primitive marigolds the other day when it was cold and rainy outside, i looked today and saw the first sprouting's of the peppers today which made me very happy to have bleached my hands that day to avoid giving the peppers tobacco mosaic disease.
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