New Garden area

Well, this doesn't look like much, it used to be trees and palmettos, but thanks to my brotherinlaw's help it is now dirt. It will take a few weeks to get the rest of the junk cleaned up but this project will increase the garden by 200% making it possible to rotate crops and put more in at a time. something that will help with the selling.

My sister also helped by providing second lunch. It was fresh made shortcake still warm from the oven and some strawberries from the farmers market. yum yum

Now all I have to do is fertilize, plant, water,fertilize again, water water,fertilize again, water, water, harvest, harvest, harvest. O this is fun!

Hard working dog

Poor Ginger, she needed a rest badly after watching me work all afternoon. She settled in for a nap with the super sausage dog. A new toy she has picked up. She likes to toss em up and catch em and roll em around on the floor, very funny to watch as she usually does not play like that.

Winter Harvest

I took a small harvest of veggies to the co-op this week. It doesn't look like much but the veggies and the eggs payed the bill for the fruit i got. So the garden work has paid off a bit.

Soon the green house will be done, I'm waiting for a day with calm winds to put the plastic on and then i can start getting ready for spring. The plan so far is for potatoes, carrots, broccoli, cabbage, corn, onions and beans.

Just in case your not familiar with veggies, that's purple potatoes on the left, yes that's right there purple all the way thru, carrots, very good fresh out of the ground and rutabaga which didn't do so well.

Rooster Fun

Life on the farmstead is quieter these days. Since i got rid of the the Jersey Giant Rooster the Buckeye roosters seem to make less noise. I don't know if it's less competition or what but it seems less roosters means less noise.

We had an incident the other day. The family was over for new years day lunch and we noticed blood on one of the roosters feet and he was limping some. Well, being the well trained roos they are, i couldn't get near them to check him out. He was doing ok that evening and hoped up on the roost for the night. I got a good look at him later when they had settled. It seems he lost the end of his toe. I don't have a clue how but the end is gone from right behind the claw. He seems to be doing fine now. He still limps some but hes rooing around as usual so I guess he will be ok. On the bright side, he stirs up less dust with a claw missing.

The baby's are growing bigger. The buckeye chicklet is bold as i would expect. I feed the flock some corn bread the other day and of course they all gathered round in a large mass. When the cornbread hit the ground, it looked like a shark feeding frenzy and in the midst was the chicklet, snatching bread from under the mouths of the adult hens and ruuuunnnning away. It was very funny to watch, The giant cross chicklets stand at the edge and holler for someone to feed em like they are afraid of getting into the mix. It is amazing to watch the different behaviors of these silly birds.