I use to blog all the time and I loved it. When my old blog home stopped working, I just gave up. What I miss most is the usefulness of having a journal of what was done when. A good farmer keeps good records and blogging can be a fun and creative way to keep records. So here is to trying to blog more and have a record of what is happening around here. This is as real and truthful as it gets, so be kind.
I awoke a little late this morning because I was with two of the girls at a 4H meeting last night. To be honest I skipped reading my Bible so that I could get DH's breakfast ready on time. Two eggs, two pieces of toast, three pieces of bacon every morning almost. Delved righ in to morning chores. Aly is on restriction from animals for lying and has been required to switch chores for 2 weeks. She is not my kitchen girl, so I need to help her more with her morning chores. Got the kids breakfast made and a batch of cheese started. Got my room cleaned and by 8 AM we had all the animal chores, tidying, and other morning chores done.
Today we went straight outside after clean up. We are trying to finish several fencing projects. We finished a new turkey pen last week and this week we are fencing in the berry area and hoping the geese and ducks can use the pen as additional area to forage. I had to spend the majority of the day discing the wheat field. We have been planning to plant 3 acres to wheat as the grain for our animals this winter. Today I finished the discing of 1.5 acres. Of course it is suppose to rain. We have to get the wheat planted soon or we won't get a crop.
So where are we at with our little farm. We are scaling the garden back this year, but the pigs did an excellent job initially ploughing it and we have quite a bit planted. In so far - potatoes, onions, peas, kale, beets, and carrots. We have lettuce, herbs, and brassicas started in the greenhouse. We planted 4 new blueberries and 4 new grapes. We have 2 small orchards that are both mostly planted although a bunch of trees do not look great.
In terms of animals we have a jersey dairy cow who is suppose to calf in August, an angus beef cow who is suppose to calf in May, an angus bull, and 3 steers. We have 2 LaMancha does and a buck. One doe kidded already to 2 doelings and 2 bucklings. We have 3 Icelandic ewes, an Icelandic ram, and 3 shetland/Icelandic ewes. Three ewes have lambed and given us 3 ewe lambs and a ram lamb. We have 2 quarterhorses. We have 2 sows and a boar and 1 sow just had 6 piglets and we lost one. We have about 10 additional pigs we are raising to butcher. We have 3 black Spanish/red bourbon turkey hens and a red bourbon tukey tom. We have a 4 ducks and 2 geese. I refuse to count how many chickens there are. We have a bunch and 15 new poults were purchased - rhode island reds, brahmas, and wyndottes. Then a broody hen came out of the forest with 10 chicks.
Our farm goals are to provide for ourselves as much as possible and to spend as little money as possible. We are trying to make the most of the land we have.
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