Springtime!

It is definitely springtime on the farm.  Pretty flowers are blooming, especially the irises and daisies right now, and baby animals are being born.  Geneva, our herd matriarch, gave birth to twin girls this past weekend.  Just like their mother, the twins are all white and have cute little wattles.  Mother and kids are doing well, and we enjoy sitting in the field, cuddling with the new kids.

Two Sweet Kids

Another new arrival this weekend was a young rooster that we got from some of our farmer friends (thanks, Michael and Veronica!).  He's a handsome Asian Blue chicken, which is a new breed of chicken that is supposed to grow quickly and be good for both meat and eggs. We hope that he is also good at producing offspring, since our flock has dwindled to only 7 hens.  Raine is excited about the possibility of having new baby chicks on the farm.


The garden is coming along fairly well.  I had germination problems with my carrots, and most of the ones that did come up were swiftly gobbled up by something.  However, my beets and sugar snap peas are doing great.  The bush peas are flowering already.  The greens are also coming along well, and I am in the process of transplanting lots of tomatoes.

New home construction update coming soon!
-Annie