I continue to work at catching up with spring planting so not much time to post! We’ve been busy for sure.
The back yard garden with the trellises and strawbale garden is completed for this year:
I have scarlet runner beans also on the other end of the trellis along with clematis and schisandra vine.
Plus a small patio off the back door that will have a half barrel with rosemary, sage and thyme handy for cooking with fresh herbs. These herbs stay green all year round here.
The reconstituted hoop house is progressing nicely with small tomatoes on the vines already!
The dark cornish hens are producing according to plan supplying next year’s poultry for the freezer.
The field is ready for beans and several feed crops including spelt, alfalfa, soybeans, and buckwheat.
I’ll be running hot wire right along the edge of this field so the cows can mow all of that nice green grass.
That’s progress for now – more to come as I get a chance to post.
Hello again,
I’ve been reading your posts in all your different subjects. I am so interested ! Have you always lived in Washington or did you pick up for somewhere else and move there? Did you have any experience in gardening, farm animal raising and etc or are you learning as you go? Do you have plans to make your farm profitable by selling your surplus(once you become self sustaining?)
You mentioned you both work- fulltime? retired?
Our little farm here in Castle Hayne NC is only 3.25 acres and we are surrounded by propery owners with 1-6 acre lots. We currently are the only ones attempting to garden and put up what we produce. While our harvest is for ourselves this year we are toying with the idea of selling our surplus. We do not expect to make a lot of money but rather meet other people who are trying to go back to our roots so to speak.
My grandmother in WVA always had a large garden in which my sister and I helped her can all her harvest from tomatoes, corn, beans etc.
Being young at the time I never much paid attention to when she planted or how she oriented the garden and such.
Now I am having to figure those things out as I venture in my own little garden.
But what joy it brings to see the fruit on the vines!