Updates

Here are some updates on previous things we have discussed around the farm.

The cherry, apple and pear trees are doing very well. They are full of nice green leaves and should start putting out fruit next month. The addition of bees should strengthen our fruit crop considerably this year. A sickly cherry tree had to be chopped down this month in order to conserve the resource of water, it will be replaced next year to help it get established while we still have healthy and producing ones around.

So much green! We have already started to enjoy some of our produce and are fighting rabbits, birds, etc. for them!

Three little chicken coops all in a row. Chicken wire will be put up around the posts so that three areas will be created: the middle area where all of the chicken coops sit, an area to the left and an area to the right. This will allow us to utilize the sun that each side of the field gets for the most appropriate season as well as to allow the soil and grass a break from the destruction the chickens will wreak.

Speaking of chickens - here they are at about 3 weeks old. They are getting bigger and smellier everyday. We hope to have them outside full-time in about 3 weeks, at which time they will be very ready for the change and we will have probably already lost our minds.