Mockingbird Farm

Okay so you are probably wondering, 'what happened to the farm?' well farming is happening on the farm and hence no posts :-) but it is raining today so I have time to sit and write something. We have been busy around here, we now have 2 bulls calves who will be responsible for eating the grass in front of the chicken 'tractors', we have 80 replacement pullets, 150 Cornish Cross meat chickens. We will hopefully be getting lambs within a week or two. I have been resisting the urge to put out bee boxes to see if I can catch a swarm of honeybees, don't think I have time this season! The garden is coming along, potatoes, peas, radishes, green beans, cucumbers, kale, carrots, onions, garlic and lettuce planted along with several things transplanted out of the greenhouse. We have also inoculated over 50 logs with shiitake mushroom spawn which will hopefully produce this fall. I was hoping to have some pictures but alas the battery is dead in the camera, something else for the to do list :)
Come see us sometime if you don't mind crazy business, mud and being put to work. Lots of weeds to pull, chicks to move, electric fence to build and brambles to transplant.

Second attempt at making syrup, beautiful sunny day, sap is running fast and clear, plan to collect again today and start boiling tomorrow after church!