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We'll have onions!!! Look at these onions, aren't they the most beautiful onions you have ever seen. (yes, technically this is a farm blog post) But, I am so proud, like a new momma, of these baby onions I had to share. Look at those little sprouts, all green and standing up on their own.
Sarah fell in love with Poppy's this year and had to have a couple. She and Hannah went this evening to get a few and a new pot. I guess the girl has got to have some flowers in the mist of chicken poo and manure!!!
This evening Sarah and Hannah were digging up a bed to put in some flower seeds and they need some manure. Hayden brought some to them and proceed to half-heartedly work it in and be the 'garden clown'. Sarah said something about him being useless (just joking) and he acted like he was going to walk off.
She straightened up and said "I didn't say you could leave, I SAID YOU WERE USELESS!!!! I about fell out of my chair. The girl has got attitude!
The manure got mix in and the flower seeds planted.
I have created a blog for our farm, Brambleberry Farm. We are coming into the Farmer's Market season and we are listed on a couple of sites that are for this purpose, so I wanted something dedicated to what we are doing organically, what we are growing and lessons that we are learning.
We are babes in this and are learning alot daily. Hopefully we can encourage others that would like to make this step into greater self-sufficiency.
Today we went to the nursery to buy our herbs. Of course, we will use these in cooking, but hope to sell some at the Farmer's Market also.
We are still waiting to get our first eggs. The chickens are doing great. We have moved them to layer feed now since they are 20+weeks old. They enjoy plain yogurt immensely!
We have little carrot sprouts now!! They are so tiny, but growing. The onions are sprouting also. The lettuce and strawberries are doing great. Soon we will get the beans, okra, tomatoes, and cucumbers in the ground.
We are considering starting a grape arbor. I need to do some more study on this, but it would continue to move us toward our goal.
William continues to study solar power and how we can move to this source of energy.
Today we planted these little lovelies. This will be our first batch; we will do another for a later harvest.
The chickens are doing great and growing. Here are two of the ladies sitting on their walkway to the coop.
The trees and bushes here are beautiful in the Spring.
Today we headed to a local nursery(buy local whenever possible) to purchase strawberry plants. We hope to have a green house by next year to start seeds.
We also found some Romaine lettuce and pepper plants that looked wonderful, so we will add those to the mix!
The kids got the strawberry plants in the ground this afternoon. (We are short 4 plants you'll notice in the picture) Tomorrow we will get the lettuce and carrot seeds in the ground.
Next month the tomatoes, bush beans, peppers, etc. will be planted.
Our Farmer's Market starts up May 23rd and we can't wait! We have plans to expand our offerings and promote organic gardening.
photos courtesy of Hannah Queen
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