Long overdue for a farm update as we've been keeping busy. Our truck is mostly repaired and much of our gardens are planted. The chicks are growing and we have a nice community of rabbits on pasture.
Matt and Andrea rebuild the transmission for their 1997 Chevrolet Z71 replacing worn out frictions, seals, and rings. It's running great other than a slight vibration that we believe is due to the drive line misalignment. The forecast for the next three days is rain and that will give us an opportunity to have a look at it under cover.
We picked up some tomato and pepper transplants from local farmers to fill in our garden beds. A lot of the seeds we planted are growing up, including; turnips, beets, corn, snap beans, cow peas, sunflowers, carrots, squash, okra, and lima beans. A lot of our braccica transplants have bug damage already. This being our first season to grow in this climate we are expecting a lot of weeds and crop damage. As we work the soil it will get better with the addition of leaf mulch that we have yet to add to cover the ground.
Our 100+ chicks eating organic non-GMO feed and learning to forage. We allow them outside when they can be watched as we have lost two to predation. We think cats and dogs are the culprits. They had a group of young girls play with them for a day and got to be really comfortable around people. The chicks are becoming well trained to going up in their pen as well.
Our pastured rabbits were suffering some injurys from other rabbits that were a bit to spunky to handle community living. We've found a good match of does now that enjoy living together and have a nice buck that is spending time with the girls. This will be our breeding community in a paddock shift grazing style of living. We find many benifits to raising rabbits this unconventional way. The rabbits cut the grass, feed themselves, and fertalize and spread manure. They seem happier being able to run hop and sniff eachother.
The farm is greening and mushrooms are popping out of the ground. Flowers are blooming and everything is growing from the warm rains. We are excited to see all this growth in our first season in North Carolina.
Matt and Andrea rebuild the transmission for their 1997 Chevrolet Z71 replacing worn out frictions, seals, and rings. It's running great other than a slight vibration that we believe is due to the drive line misalignment. The forecast for the next three days is rain and that will give us an opportunity to have a look at it under cover.
We picked up some tomato and pepper transplants from local farmers to fill in our garden beds. A lot of the seeds we planted are growing up, including; turnips, beets, corn, snap beans, cow peas, sunflowers, carrots, squash, okra, and lima beans. A lot of our braccica transplants have bug damage already. This being our first season to grow in this climate we are expecting a lot of weeds and crop damage. As we work the soil it will get better with the addition of leaf mulch that we have yet to add to cover the ground.
Our 100+ chicks eating organic non-GMO feed and learning to forage. We allow them outside when they can be watched as we have lost two to predation. We think cats and dogs are the culprits. They had a group of young girls play with them for a day and got to be really comfortable around people. The chicks are becoming well trained to going up in their pen as well.
Our pastured rabbits were suffering some injurys from other rabbits that were a bit to spunky to handle community living. We've found a good match of does now that enjoy living together and have a nice buck that is spending time with the girls. This will be our breeding community in a paddock shift grazing style of living. We find many benifits to raising rabbits this unconventional way. The rabbits cut the grass, feed themselves, and fertalize and spread manure. They seem happier being able to run hop and sniff eachother.
The farm is greening and mushrooms are popping out of the ground. Flowers are blooming and everything is growing from the warm rains. We are excited to see all this growth in our first season in North Carolina.