Mother Earth News Fair and Progress

All chicks should roost on the clothesline and ignore the roost that was built for them.

 

 

Baby Peaches

 

Garden Progress, the green house has been completed. Most of the garden is planted with the exception of corn and beans:



Hoop house that grew greens all winter long for us, it is now uncovered and cleaned out for strawberries to come up.



Herb garden:



Raspberry bed:



Pallets have mostly salad greens in them








This will be a good bug house eventually, slowly working on filling it with things to attract those good bugs.



We had the opportunity to attend the Mother Earth News fair in North Carolina last weekend. We left early in the day and got home late the same day.

We had the kids with us and brought a backpack for the baby. It went well and it was inspiring to see everyone's informative booth and great products. 

We made a ton of progress on the yard. It looks awesome and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. 

 

Eeeeek! Opportunity!!!

Exciting news coming soon!

Now for the boring stuff. I moved the ducks outside to the brooder so my bathroom is no longer a duck house. The big chicks are out of the brooder and with the hens, the two smaller chicks are in with the ducks in the brooder but they appear to be segregating themselves and not co-mingling.
I am a little worried the chicks wont stay in the coop but we will see, they are definitely too big for the brooder.

We are getting a dozen or more eggs a day. Amazing! That is enough for us and enough to sell to help offset feed costs. Love that!

This month has been a little weird for me, last year at this time I was in the hospital for what would turn into a 7 week stay followed by a 7 week NICU stay for my little guy. I missed the entire Spring/early Summer last year so this year I feel out of sorts. Having experienced the preemie thing twice and a near death pregnancy more than once I certainly feel like I have a little PTSD from it all. Slowly finding joy in the season :-)

80 degrees? Yes Please!

The weather this week has been beautiful and we are in full swing garden planning and yard work. Trying to tie up loose ends before it gets hot.

The gardens need tilling one more time, planting will start soon. I am considering ordering a row seeder but have yet to make a decision. Seeds have been started and plants purchased.

The chicks are ready to be moved to the coop with the big girls which means the ducks can move out of my bathroom and into the brooder. We made the decision to get freedom ranger chicks for meat so a meat pen needs to be built for them.

I have slowed way down on my ebay/etsy listings because sales were kind of slow but I need to get back on track with that.

Goat School, Cows and Chickens

Today we went to goat school. We learned the basics, a little about the different breeds and milked a goat. We also saw some freedom ranger chickens which are the breed of chickens we are considering for meat, cows and lots of beautiful sunshine

it was a productive day. The kids had fun and enjoyed goat school!