Almost New

It's almost the New Year and things are all under snow, we've had a great couple holidays, Mirabelle's first birthday/Thanksgiving and Christmas. All family filled and fun. The seed catalogs are coming in and Judd and I are getting excited for the new season and our expanded gardens. The chickens are laying now and giving us 5 eggs a day which is more than we can keep up with, we plan to get more this spring and have them avaliable to our CSA members. Happy New Year.

Pictures

Our daughter Mirabelle with a 2.23 pound Red pontiac potato.

Ziggy

Tucker, the old man, Judd has had Tucker since he was in 6th grade.

Mowgsli

Saturday morning

So I have figured out to post a picture. This picture is of our view from our front porch at sunset recently.
It's raining finally, ahhhh, it's so great. Harvest is slowing, we've brought in all the potatoes, beans are done, and we've been canning tomatoes like mad. I'm actually getting sick of tomatoes, with the rain our cherries have been cracking like mad and making harvest a pain in the back. But it all seems to have gone by very quickly. We have also tilled sections of the garden getting ready for fall planting. We are going to try winter harvesting this year, like Eliot Colemen, and also planting spinach and greens seed in late fall so they'll be ready and waiting to come up in the spring. Well we'll see if it works.
Today we are working on getting nesting boxes together for our chickens who have started laying, much to our surprise, they're early. They have been going under their house and have a community nest there. We have 11 chickens we started with 12 but one turned out to be a Rooster and when he started crowing he went to live with my parents chickens on their farm, Reeko and my sister are very happy now.
We are working on getting our CSA info together and soon I hope to be posting info for anyone to see.

Beginning

So.. this is my first ever blog, I got the idea from a fellow gardener at the Shelburne Farmers Market, Open Heart Farm, whom you view at openheartfarm.blogspot.com, so I view and was inspired to start my own. I figure if nothing else I can do something inbetween taking care of my nine month old, keeping the house in some sort of order, canning, pottery making, and keeping the gardens going, mainly try to harvest everything in time to sell and between changing diapers, nursing and naps. So far so good. My husband and I are trying to find out if we can do what we love, garden/work outside at home, and make a living. My hope is to have a CSA, something I've wanted for quite a few years but haven't had the means to start, it's hard to trust you can pay your morgage on maybe getting enough people to buy your product, so I met and married and had a child and now I'm home and have the chance to start my CSA. So next spring we start and this is our beginning.