This is the gang yesterday under the rabbit cages staring me down - GIVE US THAT FOOD OR ELSE! Is this not the cutest thing! They are too small for the electric fence to cause them any distress, so they just come and go as they please. You can find them during the day in the field eating grass. In the afternoon sun, they return to the pen to rest. They travel as a group and sometimes playfully tease Eva, our chocolate lab. They 'romp' ( play roughly and energetically) around the farm, free and easy. But soon, they will grow large enough that the fence becomes a deterrent.
Moving on.... Planting time. We had trees and seeds to set. It's too cold to put anything in the ground, so we planted the seeds in the planters below. We also planted maple, hickory, redbud, fig, and I can't remember all the other saplings we planted. I will probably be 80 before they look beautiful on our farm!
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| Planting an olive Tree!! Our memories from a trip to Italy |
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| peas, carrots, beets, fennel, sunflowers, beans, lettuce, basil, and much more |
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| Wild Flowers (note tree saplings) |
We are also building more chicken coops for the 200 chicks that are arriving soon. Eventually, there will be 800 chicks.
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| Alyce building 2nd of 4 chicken houses |
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| 2 down and 2 more to go. They are on wheels! |
So these houses can be pulled across the field and setup in new places every few days. An original design!!
A funny story about the planted seeds. We put them in the barn to protect them from a freeze. When we went to pull them out the next morning, there were these perfectly made little holes in each pod where a mouse had taken it's little paw and dug out the seed!! I had to reseed almost every pod! We caught the not-so-little mouse a few days ago - almost the size of a rat!! There is always a predator to watch out for!!
Today, a couple that just moved from Atlanta to build a life on a farm, contacted me. They are coming to visit this afternoon. The farm they bought is about 10 minutes from our farm! They, like us, wanted a change in their lives.
Here is the label I designed - from the farm sign I made - for my honey. Very exciting! Now I just have to get the bees to live past 1 year!
So begins April....
