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This email already went out to our list subscribers (sign up here) and our Facebook friends and Twitter followers may have seen it too, so apologies for duplicates … We are really sad to have to tell you that we will not have any turkeys available for sale this year. We had significant [...] (You know, like the State of the Union. We just had the State of the State recently.) Ruminants One Romney mutt lamb, and [...] Hey look what we got! These shy little guys (who won’t move out from behind the crate so I can take a good picture) are Soay sheep, a not-very-domesticated breed from Scotland. They are small, and their tails are short so they don’t need to be docked, and they don’t need to [...] It’s our third year with poultry, and the raccoons have finally found us. We are down to one laying duck (from four) — they took one on Sunday, one on Monday, and one on Tuesday. So the hens and remaining survivor duck are all staying inside the coop until we can figure out [...] We’ve been reviewing our successes and not-so-much-successes from last year, and our resources for this year (including personal levels of energy and time available, as well as space), and making some decisions about when and what and how. One thing we know: we’re not going to grow produce for sale this year. We’ll [...] We just got home from the farmers’ market, where we sold out of chickens — hooray! So, no more reservations. I’ll be taking down the signup form. However, we have left ourselves a buffer of 25 chickens for which we are *not* taking reservations, in case something happens (illness, predators, they get banged [...] The chicks that were imminent in the last post are now here and huge and out on pasture and more than half of them are claimed already. Yay! So — if you want organic pastured chickens and you’re in the Seattle area and can come pick them up during the first week of November, [...] Every day I think “Oh I’ll blog about this interesting thing tonight,” or I take a picture and fully intend to post it, and every day I do not manage to do so. Tons is going on here and even though I am now taking vacation from work on Fridays to stay home and [...] … but we got to stretch two days’ worth of work out over three days, and a good thing too — it was too hot to work outside between 12 and 4ish every day this weekend, so we got to take breaks and drink gins and tonic and read our books. But all the [...] So the sun has been shining here, which means we’ve barely sat down at all as we scramble to get things done. This weekend was full of socializing and meeting new people as well as much farm work. In the past few days we have: planned irrigation for the New Farm (nothing in the [...] It’s April, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. 1. Tomato seedlings (we’re behind), 2. Swirly egg and speckly egg, 3. QUACK, 4. Garlic and mustard greens, 5. Impending artichoke, 6. When we pulled back the sheet on this hoophouse, it was like opening a present Created with fd’s Flickr [...] Lots done this weekend, despite a super-busy week for me with both work and socializing. Followed it up with a busy weekend full of farm chores and seedlings! Yay. The greenhouse is not yet done, but it is serviceable, so we moved four seed trays out into it. They are under lights but [...] |
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