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March recap

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The farmhands watching the cement mixer carefully before we poured footings for the new pergola

Early in March we registered as a farm with the USDA and spoke with the NRCS district officer about a conservation plan, irrigation, and certified organic status, which are all in varying levels of progress.

Egyptian walking onions and a day’s worth of eggs

Mike used our chainsaw mill to mill lumber for our planned pergola. We built said pergola over the course of a week, from mostly our own timber from our property, then stained it and planted muscadines on the four corners

  • milling lumber
  • milling lumber
  • putting it together
  • staining
  • finished pergola
  • muscadine

We planted potatoes, got our first batch of broiler chicks for the season, extended our grape arbor and planted another 10 muscadines there, and built a shelter for our laying chickens.

  • potatoes
  • Cornish Rock chick
  • grape arbor
  • the chickens love their new shelter

And, finally, we determined exactly where we wanted to expand our new garden, and placed at least a million t-posts. We are expanding from 1/4 acre to 3/4 acre, not including our fruit tree orchard.

  • the new 1/2 acre
  • putting in t-posts
  • more t-posts

April will bring: deer fencing for the new garden, planting lots of elderberries and asparagus, among other things, new layer chicks and a couple of goslings, and continuing to love and be so grateful and excited for this amazing opportunity we have.

  • celery seedlings
  • strawberries are blossoming
  • asparagus are coming up
  • George Washington Rooster on guard duty
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