June 7-13

We've gotten quite a bit of rain over the last week. Rainy days are good for getting caught up in the greenhouse.

Tommy and my dad getting the the hydroponics system set up.

There's a robins nest in the greenhouse, the babies have just hatched.

The First Week of June

Saturday June 5th was the first farmers market of the season.

We sold quite a bit of pork.

Overall market sales were better than expected.

The oyster mushrooms are ready to be moved outside. It looks like the inoculation worked and we should get a good crop of mushrooms.

Adam driving the Allis Chalmers B.

We're doing a little bit of logging, we need some lumber for buildings.

The green beans have germinated, rain and warm weather have really helped.

The Last Week of May

Oats and field peas, the idea is to combine them both at the same time so they'll already be mixed for feed.

The field corn has germinated, warm days and plenty of soil moisture make good corn growing weather.

The wheat is also growing really well. We got an inch of rain earlier this week and that helped things along.

Rain and warm weather have given our pastures a boost.

Some of our larger pigs enjoying pasture.

May 17-23

Getting ready to check the bees, smoke helps to calm them down.

Planting field corn, this corn will be be pig food.

We had a visitor earlier this week, a yearling black bear wandered through. He didn't do an damage and went back into the woods.

May 10-16

Our batch of 30 meat birds arrived this week. They'll be cute for a few more days.

On Friday I planted sweet potato slips in the green house. Last year they did pretty well despite the fact we had crummy transplants.

I've been setting the onions outside during the day, hopefully they'll be ready to transplant this week.

I'm working on building another pig feeder. I can build them for a lot cheaper than what they cost to buy.

The last week of April

The lettuce and arugula are ready in the greenhouse. We've started selling some and have been making lots of salads.

We finally got rain, and some hail last night. The hail wasn't big enough to do any damage though.

After quite a bit of work, the $75 grain drill is functional again!

I'm planting spring wheat for fall harvest.

The next project is to get our 16 ft drill working.

April 19-15

The grain drill needed a hitch to pull a cultipacker behind it.

Instead of welding the hitch directly to the frame I welded the hitch to separate pieces of angle iron and bolted it to the drill. The idea is that if something happens the part I built will bend (or the bolts will shear) so the frame of the drill isn't damaged.

After adding the covering chains, its starting to look like a functional grain drill again.