Lots of cool stuff.

The Garden.

It grew. A lot. This is an amazing process to watch...and eat.

WWOOF Dinner

Another farmer friend, Leigh, has 4 wwoofers (that’s what we are) working up the road from us. We had them over for dinner in thanks for helping us hay on Sunday. It was a beautiful meal consisting of 12 different food items from our farms: cucumber, duck, chicken, lettuce, arugula, broccoli, basil, blueberries, blackberries, black trumpet mushrooms, chanterelle mushrooms, and the maple syrup used to sweeten the vinaigrette dressing!!!

Bees

Our honey bees are doing great. We went in to add brood chambers (where the queen bee lays her 1,000 eggs a day) and supers (where they store the honey). If the hive gets too populated, the bees will pick a new queen, split, swarm, and find a new home. That would be bad for us because half our bees would be gone. So every few weeks we add more chambers.

Hay

Just a sneak peak to our haying assembly line. We are moving so slowly because this was our 5th round of unloading. A total of 362 bales weighing about 30lbs each. For Kyle and the guys, that’s not a big deal. For Kathy and I....oh man are we sore. It’s a full body workout starting with lifting with the hands/back/shins, walking it with the hands/back/resting on the thighs, and then lifting it with the hands/back/every arm muscle. That’s a lot of hands and back!!!

Robert, Kyle, and I went for a mushroom hunt and now it’s dinner time!

Pigs

A farmer friend of ours, David, has pigs. I like them. They are useful critters...they eat all our food waste, they improve the land, and eventually they give you bacon, ham, and sausage. We are loving learning how to take care of animals that provide food.