2 Mar 13: Morning Farm Report
21 degrees this morning on the farm. Still cold. Seedlings doing well. Two baby chicks in the nest this morning. 🙂 Waiting on roots from the sweet potatoes. Now wondering if it’s time to start the morning glories?
Farm Report: One tray of peaches, one tray of strawberries, one tray of pineapple, and four trays of apples are dehydrating now! My smoker has been assembled but it’s too windy today to cook clean it. Harvested another bucket of lemon drop peppers and a few jalapenos. The jalapenos will be smoked to make chipotle peppers….
Today’s plant has made it’s home on the west side of our workshop. This location is shaded in the morning and has full sun in the afternoon. This location receives no additional irrigation, fertilizer, or herbicides. Stem Leaf image on Instagram.Fruit and flower images on Facebook. Yes, I know what this plant is… do you?…
Proper husbandry allows for the flow of animals from farm-to-farm or farm-to-yard or place-to-place. Domesticated animals are no longer “wild” and if left in the wild are unable to find food or shelter appropriately. While some may try to insist that all animals should be free, it just simply is not true. That insistence has…
Part of this morning was spent working on the vineyard. We have eight grape vines planted, mulched and watered. Plus, there is one that might not survive so it has been granted a private space. This is one of our farm projects. I stopped to see how things were coming with the vineyard and realized…
We survived the freeze and woke up to 26 degrees this morning. Some of the plants have been damaged. So much has still not sprouted (and probably wont) but I’m hoping things will still turn out well. Today is day 21 of Chick Hatch 2014. I have yet to hear anything. I’ll keep checking off…