Saturday, June 20, 2009

Farm work the past few days

We've been too busy to write much! Most of the large all-season gardens have been mulched with rye straw. We have the irrigation system working at the Putney Farm (east of us on Loop Rd). The walk-in cooler is all built, painted, and working. Now we have plenty of cold storage space! We have weeded a lot everywhere, with hoes, tillers and by hand. We have planted all the brassica seeds (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbages), more salad mix, more beans including Masai, a filet gourmet bean, transplanted more lettuce heads (Bibb, Anuenue and Romaine). The rutabagas are seeded in cells in the greenhouse. It's an awful lot to keep track of.

We are eating the first peas and squashes - you all will get some soon. This heat FINALLY is really making things grow fast now.

We sent more steers to the USDA butcher and are into the pasture rotation for everyone else. The cows are in with the bulls now for breeding.

Baby chicks arrive on June 30th and we are still looking for feeder pigs for sale.

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