The lenton roses are blooming all over the farm right now. They'll bloom for the next four months bringing in spring nice and slowly. The honey bees love them which is fortunate for us.
The pigs have taken up alot of our farm chores this winter. But they're growing big and strong, trying desparately to dig under the fences for some green grass! Hope the fencing will last till butchering time.
The garden is still producing - but not much. Hope to have better success with that next year through December and January when we have a high tunnel system installed. This cabbage looked particularly pretty with the green and purple. Still trying to decide whether to do a CSA this year, or stick to our farm market with selling at special venues through the growing season. Looking at numbers and time and money. Hope we can make the right decision.
So, we decided to have the chickens do the work in the garden beds this year. Here is a nice little two chick hut we transferred from over by the garage that Joel made last spring for the ducklings. It's perfect for them and they are nicely digging up the beds. We picked up more pallets from Mitchell's yesterday to make a couple more to put them to work in several beds at once! Genious.
I don't know what these are, but they are starting to bloom and look so pretty - especially when the whole bush is in bloom. I love to pick these and bring them indoors on the dining room table in Feb. and March. They look like something Japanese.
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Our biggest job on this farm has been clearning land. Thankfully the woodstove is working well to use up all that is being cleared! Spent a portion of yesterday morning cutting up wood for the stove to take us through these warming days,
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