Fall is definitely a busy time of year here on the farm, but a beautiful one too. We've enjoyed many days of gorgeous weather - like today. It's expected to be 73 degrees! A great day to keep working in the garden - going to plant more lettuce and take out the old plants.
We're continuing the picking up of wood around the property and splitting it or just putting it near the wood pile. The new outside woodstove is going strong and keeping the house so very, very warm.
Work has finally begun on finishing the family room. Randy Young is putting in all the trim and it is really looking nice. Hope it is done for the holidays.
We're continuing to crack all the walnuts we gathered and dried. It is very very tedious work because you have to pick out all the little pieces. Is it really worth it?
Saturday was butchering day and David and Olivia took 34 meat chickens and 7 of our laying hens over to our friends the Furhmans to butcher. We ended up butchering the good layers and not the ones that stopped laying by mistake! Oops! David is picking up 10-14 new pullets tonight after work so we hope to have fresh eggs again very soon. hope they all get along nicely.
The garden is still giving - lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts, turnips and swiss chard. The herbs are all doing very well. I'm still harvesting alot of wisteria vines to make wreaths and baskets. Am thinking of a little money-making idea of making and selling Christmas wreaths this year. We have so much boxwood. It just might work.
Julie,
ReplyDeleteI love your blog!
I did not know you could still plant lettuce. Do you need to do anything special since it will soon be getting cold outside?