Friday, May 13, 2011

What's Growing on the Farm

Things that are growing right now on our farm:

... Daisies and Chives

... Broccoli, which is DE-licious


... Strawberries!  I just picked the first ripe ones two days ago.  You have no idea how good a strawberry can be until you've had one straight off the vine!

... My cherry tomato plant - can you believe it already has green tomatoes? 


... Volunteer cilantro


... Baby chicks 


... Yes, we're chicken farmers now.  More on that later ...


... Strangly enough, this hedge post that Gage cut last winter and used to make a fence has decided to start growing.  Weird.


... Little boys


 "This sand doesn't taste good!"


Now, things that are no longer growing on our farm:

Baby ducks - rest in peace, you crazy, crazy little things (more later on this, too ...)


The grass on the front half of our lawn.  Gage: "What?  You told me to take care of the lawn.  You mean you wanted me to MOW it???"



P.S.  No, he really wasn't that confused.  We decided to use the front portion of our HUGE yard for blueberries, which means we have to begin amending the soil now if we want to plant blueberries anyime in the next few years.  Gage made me come out halfway through the job to offer moral support, as he was ... you know ... tilling up our yard.

1 comment:

Sara Shaffer said...

Wow that's awesome! When do you open for people to come tour/pick the strawberries and how much do you charge? :-) Looks like life is treating you all well. Miss you my friend.