Join me as I walk the pasture, have a look at the fence I’ve been working on, talk about our briar problem, and the possibility of adding pigs to the homestead.
Category: Farm
The part of the homestead we manage to grow things for profit.
Spring Fever!
Spring planning begins in January for me. I’ve been mapping out what we want to grow, how we want to lay out the garden this year, planning the irrigation lines, ordering seeds, and enjoying a tiny experiment of a single onion in a kratky hydroponics jar (it’s getting tall!) In February, we started 3 kratky jars of sweet potatoes for slips, strawberry seeds, cabbage, and peppers.
March is now here and spring fever has arrived with it. I’ve begun knocking down the old straw bales from the garden to make way for the new bales. We learned a lot from last year and we’re changing up the layout to make watering and access easier. We’re also expanding the garden by almost double the square footage we did last year.
I just sourced the straw bales I need and I’ll be getting them Saturday. I’ll start conditioning them on St. Patrick’s Day and they’ll be ready for my peas and beets to be planted by the 27th. It’s all coming together!
Henry
Henry is a two-year- old purebred St. Croix ram registered with the St. Croix Hair Sheep Breeders, Inc.
Taking off the training wheels…
We’ve been dabbling in gardens and chickens and sheep for several years and we’ve come to the point that if we want to make something of our little hobby farm, we need to stop just talking the talk and start walking the walk as well.
Over the past couple of months, we been working on planning, training, and a fair amount of fencing. We’ve acquired some more land and are able to expand our hobby into something more. It’s time to take a deep breath… and jump…