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June 2013- harvesting and happy

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i can’t decide which baby bird I love most! Know what this one is? zonkaroonie Sometimes you hit a wall, and you need to recognize when this happens. And put down your tools and walk away for the night. The past month we’ve been playing catch up for an entire spring’s worth of work. We just now are harvesting radishes, which is so behind schedule! Our winter squash plants are just now sprouting, at the same time that the fall cabbages have been transplanted. The ground’s been so wet in this month of June, that even some of the conventional … Continue reading June 2013- harvesting and happy

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building the barn May 2012

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what doesn’t kill you… Makes you stronger. We’re building our duck barn right now, in between rain days. We now have 23 of the 32 posts in! It’s been a project, and of course it has only begun. Posts are the anchors in a pole building, then you have to put up the supports for the walls, the rafters and such for the roof, and THEN you get to put on the siding! Hopefully we’ll have something looking barn-like for our open house on May 26th. Hopefully. Andrew and I have struggled working on this project together, it is not … Continue reading building the barn May 2012

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the 2011 fall rush

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sunday journal 10/16 Today we had scheduled a butchery class on the farm, but had to cancel due to lack of full grown pigs, and holding off on deciding about Rosie. Is she pregnant? Am I hallucinating those milk glands getting slightly larger along the bottom of her belly? The first 2012 CSA shares are getting signed up for already, this is SO exciting. One customer is jumping from the once a month option to the 2x/month. That means we did a good job! Yes! The ducks are laying better, now that their celebrity status has stopped going to their … Continue reading the 2011 fall rush