We have been busy Big Lickers here trying to get a head start on everything while the rain has been kept at bay for the time being. With the help of our great friend and neighbor Buck we have been able to install the wood stove inside our greenhouse (see Asinete above putting on the finishing touches and Buck and Eugene contemplating using a coffee can as the top of the stove pipe). Now that the wood stove is completed we will fire it up in a few weeks when our tiny tomatoes, eggplants and peppers (above) get bigger and need to be moved out of the protection of the hotframe that they are in now.
We also have been chipping tree trimmings and using the mulch to put around our baby peach trees like the red haven peach above. The mulch helps keep the weeds out and holds the moisture during the summer months... peach trees like lots of water!
In other exciting farm news we have decided to enlist the help of four pigs this spring to help us uproot our newly acquired pastures. We have made a hefty investment into hog panels and will section off our pasture in increments. The pigs love to dig up everything and turn up the soil finding the roots of the grass and eating them meaning less work for us in weeding later on! Also they will fertilize the ground with their rich manure as we will follow behind them planting gardens as they move down the next section. I think the pigs will turn out to be one of our most useful farm animals (certainly more than the geese which prevent even us from getting down to our greenhouse when they are testy). In summer we will be offering our pasture raised pork! Hopefully our next farm blog will contain photos of our new pigs hard at work tilling with their powerful snouts!
Be well!
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