What beautiful days we have been having! Our pigs and chickens have really been enjoying it as well! Today marks the one week mark since we acquired our pigs and they have really been upholding their end of the bargain by rototilling our fields for us. Check out the picture from last Tuesday that I posted of their enclosure and then see it how it is now! Not only have they rooted up all the sod, eaten the roots and helped to aerate the soil but they also add their waste as a source of fertilizer (albeit stinky fertilizer!) And look at those faces.. truly only a face a mother could love! We fired up our incubator today to hatch out some of our fertilized eggs... I guess we will find out in 21 days if our rooster has been doing right by those hens! The chickens are not completely free range as we do close them up at night and we leave them in their coop long enough in the mornings so that they lay their eggs inside their nest boxes and not under trees and bushes.. after all Easter egg hunts are not fun on a daily basis!
Today was spent weeding our garlic beds, pruning our grapes, potting up tomatoes to a larger size tray and of course watching the pigs have so much fun.
We are hoping the weather holds so that we can plant the 2,500 onions which arrived early this week (photo above). This year we are going to make sure that we have beautiful onions! We ordered Walla Walla's, Spanish Sweet, a red onion called Mercury and two types of storage onions (red and yellow). We will get these in the ground and mulched as our next project! Volunteers would be most welcomed for a massive onion transplanting party! If you're interested in volunteering to help us plant please call us at 863-2646 or email and we could choose a date!
Thank you!!!
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