Check this out! Two weeks in a row. This week is a funny week. I will be home on the farm from Thursday, May 12th - Saturday, May 21st with a random Monday (the 16th) in Portland. The babies are starting to taper off on milk, so we have a little more to play with too! I plan to go cheese crazy this week!
This Week We Will Have:
- Raw milk
- Feta: very likely Monday
- Squeaky Cheese Curds: which I fully expect Grace to demolish tonight
- Chevre: probably Monday and maybe again on Saturday
- (almost certainly) Un-named soft round cheese cut into little wedges
Other Farm News:
Garden:
My garden is starting to grow all kinds of babies! Almost all the seedlings that went into the garden are still alive. Some one ate the pumpkins, but I went sort of crazy planting those, so I will investigate the bug/slug issue and put more of those out. PLUS I have brand new baby spinach, kale, turnips, beans, flowers, and ASPARAGUS! Listen, I know it's the middle of May and this sounds like an April garden, but it rains like crazy here and we had to prepare the beds, so everything is late. I am especially excited about the asparagus. Asparagus means we get to stay here; it's a long term investment. And after having moved nine times in the first nine years of our marriage, permanent seems like an unknown luxury. This is the longest I have lived in one house and not been thinking of moving. Bliss.
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| The Garden |
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| Asparagus Starts |
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| Broccoli |
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| Cawley-flower |
The first six chickens are big enough to go outside. Today is their first day and they are eating like retirees on a cruise ship. You would think I hadn't been feeding them. Mike protects his animals like someone is constantly plotting their death, so he is securing strips of netting over the chicken yard to protect them from aerial assault. This in addition to chicken wire dug down to protect from weaselly things and electric fencing. The girls will have plenty of open area to free range, but Mike likes to make sure they have a fortress to escape to if they need it.
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| The Elder Chicks |
Goats:
Well the boys have reached about the end of their time with us and on Saturday my dad is coming to help us get them ready for their new home in the freezer. They are not very big and are not going to yield a lot of meat, but if they hang around any longer the will need to be castrated and have their own buck yard, which we are no really willing to do this year. No we will get a little stew meat and call it good. The ladies are all doing very well, of course.
Here is a picture of the new barn setup:
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