Oh my we have been busy. We have started a small cooperative with a neighboring farm (Paisley Gap). Sold all CSA shares via the co-op. Plants started in the greenhouse, rebuilding our chicken flock. Cleaning up the yard from winter muck and mud. Bought a small truck and had a very good friend of ours (who does beauitful wood working, email if you are interested in some of his work) put the sides on the back of the truck.

We are still waiting for our lady rabbits to take a breeding and actually give us some nice healthy litters. With the weather warming up this should go well from here on out. If the ladies choose not to breed well then they will have to be replaced.

We will also be suppling a local restaurant with fresh produce during the growing season and if the rabbits ever get going we will also be supplying rabbits to them as well. It is all very exciting.

We are going to also start a small landscape/lawn service this year. And we have almost completed training to become loss mitigation consultants (we will be able to try and help people stay out of foreclosure and keep their homes).

As for how we are gardening, since spring crept up faster than expected and we had some weather delays we have decided to go with lasagna gardening to get our first crops in and then work on building more raised beds as the season progresses. With warm sunny days the urge to be out playing in the dirt has become unbearable. So after a nice late breakfast we will be venturing outside to complete the first bed and have it ready for planting by tomorrow at the latest. We have enough "stuff" to protect from frosts so we should be in pretty good shape.

Oh..I guess I should explain lasagna gardening. You layer cardboard, newspaper, hay/straw/mulch whichever is on hand, then compost and then you plant. As time goes by during the season and subsequent years the soil becomes very healthy and well amended.

Ok..off to make a hearty breakfast of oatmeal, toast and eggs. I will try to post more often!!

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. Sigmund Freud (about the Irish)

• Post A Comment! • Send to a Friend!