Happy New Year!  So far this winter, we’ve built a shelter for the cow and goat, installed a new watering system for the chickens and ducks, and dramatically increased the land area for the chickens (They’re allowed to free-range, but we have many predators, so their area is predator-proofed for their protection).

Our “To Do” list still includes to build a greenhouse, but it’s now time to open the 2016 season.  We’re scouring our seed catalogs and planning the garden layout.  This is the time to let you know if there’s anything you’d like for us to grow so we can include it.

To reserve your share of this year’s garden, please visit our “CSA – How to Join” tab.

We look forward to meeting you 🙂

The Fall crops have finally matured enough to be harvested. We’re loving this awesome weather after such a terrible summer. Each afternoon we take a walk to the back of the property where the fall crops were planted. The trees surround us with a rainbow of colors. Fall is my favorite time of year. Cool days, cooler nights, campfires, and sweatshirts are the best!

There’s no place like home 🙂

  
We moved these guys to their new pen today. All the fresh grass and weeds they could want (until they clear this section and we move them over to clear the next one).
It required the efforts of 4 people, an SUV, a trailer, and a LOT of animal crackers. But, the moment the were lead in they started munching away!  They seem to love their new place 

Although the weather has been terrible this year, we’re planting to end the year with a bang! Spinach, kale, chard, peas, squash, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, zucchini, broccoli, beets, acorn squash, spaghetti squash, butternut squash and cabbage are all in the ground. 

Peas and spinach

Chard is coming up nicely.

The kale looks beautiful!

Yellow squash should arrive on the new plants soon

222 freshly planted and watered broccoli and cabbage plants.

Thanks to a glitch, none of our posts have appeared for a while. Glitch is fixed!  Time to start posting again. 

When we pick greens, they’re tied into a bundle and stored in a cooler of fresh ice water with the stems down.  This is today’s items to be delivered:  Curly leaf kale, beet greens and lettuce.