New Calves!

Yay! Calving season is upon us! The first was Tuesday the 24th, a heifer calf named. . . Tuesday. The second was on Memorial Day. I haven’t seen if it’s a bull or heifer yet. If it’s a boy it is Meme (mem-me) and if it’s a girl then it’s Meme (me-me). It’s a good

Baby Birds

We got some chicks to brood from Wilco yesterday. This year it’s Color Pack and I got five Rhode Island Reds that were overstock and only $1.00 each. Good deal! Boy watched Crystal as she lifted each chick out of the box and set them in the brooder. He was so worked up! He wasn’t

Started Tomatoes

We made some 2″ soil blocks and started tomatoes this afternoon. Principe BorgheseSolanum lycopersicum. Red Paste/Drying. 70 days. Indeterminate. Classic Italian sun drying tomato. Red pointy plums with thick flesh and skin. Its viney plants grow tall enough for a trellis, and yield very late into the season. We will dry for winter use. When

Seed Orders

So nice. The corn seed arrived last night. We walked down to the mailbox this morning and there it was! Painted Mountain Corn from High Mowing in Vermont. It is going to make a great crop for us this year. Good for roasting when fresh, good for drying and grinding, or feeding to animals. So

Two Years In

There are some things to smile about the past two years. For instance, we saw this at Freddie’s last January. Or Boy checking on his baby chicks. He was hilarious. Every morning he wanted to go into the workshop and check on them. As they got bigger he seemed to gain a lot of joy

Rain, Almost

Close! The National Weather Service says Rain starting Friday! Yay! I am excited. That week of extreme heat burnt a lot around the farm. It put the pastures down hard. When Crystal called our hay suppliers one said he normally gets eight tons an acre, but this year the yield was only two . .