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…a funny thing happened on the way to the bar
Well, we made a decision to try to sell our wares at the farmers’ market. We don’t want to commit to every week, but we have sufficient excess that we can try to sell. The first thing we had to do was get a… Continue Reading “This Little Piggy Went to Market”
No pictures yet, but we had another patented Goad Farm project at night/trying to beat a storm/locusts/frogs etc.
Yesterday was a blowy, rainy, yucky day. But it warmed up and cleared up in the evening. We had a busy day indoors, so it was nice to go and sit with the chickens.
On Wednesday we released the queen from her box. It’s amazing to me the difference in how we interact with the bees between the first year and this year. The first year we started at panicked, and it went downhill from there. This year,… Continue Reading “Releasing the Queen”
So the hydroponics proved to be too much of an attractive nuisance for the kittens. I will try again with better security. But the kitchen garden is going well. The cats occasionally try to eat the leaves of the kohlrabi, but they leave the… Continue Reading “Kitchen Garden Update”
Got a call bright and early this morning that our chicks were at the post office. Very early. And I’m suffering the effects of dose two of the vaccine. But there’s a coffee shop, so I can get some energy.
So now that we have the bees settled, it is on to the birds. The hatch was a fail. Nothing hatched. At 25 days, I finally gave up and dumped the remaining eggs.
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