Hey there February! We missed you! While there is plenty to do in the month of February much was done in January as well. Check out what went on in the last 31 days.

Planting

January has been cold and boy do we welcome that! It is also the month we try to get our bulb onions planted. We are happy to report that we have checked this off our planting checklist! This year we planted two varieties: Texas Sweet & Red Creole. In addition to those we also planted Lancelot Leek. We have never grown leeks before but man do we love a good leek and potato soup! Onions are a staple food for our family. I cook at least one meal a day using them and sometimes we have them raw in salads and salsas! We love to have our own of course but last year just was not the best year for onions for us. We hope that this year will be much better.

We also added a few more perennial flower bulbs to to the ground. We have many already established from previous seasons so we are only adding varieties now that are new to us. This year we are adding Lilly and Allium to the flower garden. Although we have not planted them yet we are also adding flowering herbs to the flower garden. These will be used in our flower bouquets but also used in this seasons tea blends and tinctures we plan to make. Speaking of the flower garden, if you would like to have beautiful home grown flower bouquets delivered to your door then the Flowers by BHG subscription is just for you! You can secure your Spring subscription here. This year delivery for Spring subscription begins May 2nd and will run through the entire month of May. Dates for the Summer subscription are tba.

Back to planting. We have started many seeds for the 2022 growing season! Tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant are started and are growing nicely. We hope to have them ready to be planted in the Hoopty by March 15th at the latest and March 1st at the earliest. Although we are preparing for the Spring and Summer we cannot forget to plant those more cold hardy plants such as cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, and kale. All of these have also been started. While we have been blessed to harvest Winter cauliflower this January, we want to get a second harvest early Spring so we are starting these plants now to set out in March. Some of these will go into the high tunnel and others will go into raised beds. Carrots, fennel, and kohlrabi will be direct sown this month. We want to plant more green mustards and collards however we are at a loss as to where we will plant them as we are already running low on space! Ah the life of the micro-farmer!

Harvesting

January was a big month for harvesting here! We harvested salad turnips and for the first time ever we had enough to share, eat, and freeze and dehydrate! It was definitely busy a couple of days getting them processed but we are so thankful to have had an abundance to store for our family for later in the season. After all, have you seen grocery prices along with the supply chain issues?! Cauliflower heads for the Winter were small but again we are thankful to have these tucked away for use at a later time. We also continue to harvest snow peas and brussels sprouts leaves some of which we have also had the pleasure of storing. We even processed the stems of the brussels sprouts by dehydrating them and then using the food processor to pulse into a powder that we can now use in smoothies or anything! Side note – WE LOVE FRESH SNOW PEAS! We have eaten more than we have frozen! Oops! Our field snow peas have definitely dropped in production due to the below freezing nights we have had but I have confidence they will pick back up.

Our hot, HOT peppers died on one of the below freezing nights simply because I forgot to cover them with the frost blankets. Silly me! This meant that loads of peppers had to be harvested and processed for dehydrating! I am so thankful that the Cosori dehydrator puts off less fumes than our previous dehydrator since it was well over three pounds of peppers we had to process. We find doing this at night while everyone is sleep and while the temperatures are lower in the house is great because no one is effected by the slight odor that does result and the heat it puts off helps warm the house. Win-win! Honestly the dehydrator has been a real work horse lately. We processed a pound and a half of parsley in it over a matter of a few days taking breaks in between. It takes about 7 hours at 145 degrees to get the parsley at the desired texture.

Special Announcements!

We have tried our very best to protect our family, friends, and community by wearing our masks, social distancing, and getting vaccinated. We feel good about our efforts as a family. Thanks to having been fully vaccinated and boosted and a slight change in family dynamic we are ready to attend farmers markets again! We are not sure yet exactly what markets we will be supporting this coming season however we will keep you posted.

While we look forward to entertaining farm visits in the near future we have to slowly get back into the community so we are not there yet but when we are you will be the first to know!

Several of you have already reached out regarding our Annual Spring Plant Sale. We are so glad that you know where to go to find healthy organic plant starts! Unfortunately, this year we will not be doing an official plant sale as we have done in years past. If and when we have extra plants we will create listings for them and inform you over on our Instagram and Facebook pages. We did learn that Hawkins Homestead Farm will be doing their plant sale this year so please do check out their organic plant start offerings!

Finally, we have been reworking our website behind the scenes to build a shop instead of a listings page. This is taking some time to be sure (just learning Woo Commerce ins and outs) but we “hope” to have our new and improved shop available for you by March 1st. This will allow you to create an account and have a cart to which you can add items to rather than having to purchase one item at a time. I know that has been frustrating for many of you but we thank you for your patience as we have attempted to get ahead of the learning curve with this new software.

YouTube

We are proud to say that we are back on track with regularly uploading videos! It feels good to be back on track. This Summer we hope to have reached enough subscribers to start doing some giveaways. So please do like our videos, subscribe to our channel, and share our content with someone you think would enjoy our journey. Each time you do you support our farm as we work hard to support our community. We appreciate you! Below you will find a list of videos from January. We hope you enjoy!

• Cosori Dehydrator – Unboxing & Set Up
• The Flock January 2022 Update
• Thrifting & Homesteading
• How We Make Honey Wheat Bread
• Starting Eggplants & Why We Love Peat Pellets
• We Made Strawberry Soda!
• Farm Chores On A Cloudy Thursday
• Garlic Tops To Garlic Powder

It was short and sweet but now you know what is going on over at Bain Home Gardens. We will touch base with you in March!

This Weeks Listings

We have plenty of greens for you guys from mustards to collards to kale – WE GOT YOU! Take advantage of our Greens Box or or Farm Sampler baskets while we have an abundance to share!

Some say that 2021 flew by and others say it took forever. If you really listen to each side you will find that their perspective is what really determines how they have experienced this past year. Focusing on the many negative experiences that many of us have faced this past year can take such an emotional toll on us. Our well being and self worth easily being effected. However, if you take the same individual with the same negative experiences and change their focus to the positive things in their life, you will find a much happier individual. One whose real joy and peace are not shaken. This is not because they are perfect and have the perfect little life but it is because their perspective is optimistic, focused on what they have rather than what they do not. Going forward in life let us all work hard to be the latter. Yesterday is unfortunately gone. Let’s affect change to today! That was my TED Talk for the month! Let’s get into the goings on why don’t we!

High Tunnel

We have put several of Hoopty’s rows to sleep for the Winter and still have more to go. The way we do this in the high tunnel is not all that different from how we do so in our raised beds. We pull existing plants leaving plant matter that is small enough to decompose such as leaves and very small stems. Everything else goes to the compost pile. We do any needed weeding while pulling the plants. Then we cover with around two inches of composted soil. Finally we lay down weed barrier to black out the soil and prevent anything from growing until we are ready. We have done this with the rows we plan to plant Spring broccoli & cauliflower on. That planting will be in February. We had planned to also do this with the row we are planting tomatoes on come Spring, however that has been delayed and we hope to get that done this week.

In other Hoopty news we have been dealing with army worms there! This is really disappointing for us. Although we use organic pesticides in the high tunnel, we only use them on crops that we know to be targets. Things like our leafy greens get treated twice monthly. The issue we have begun to have is on our carrot row which is on one of the outer edges of our high tunnel. For the first time since we began to farm the army worms are attacking the carrot tops! This area had not been treated and thus has been devastated! We will definitely have to replant our carrots which will put us behind on our goals for the year. While that is sad it could be a whole lot worse! Army worms are called such for a reason! They invade and destroy just like an efficient army, many times before the farmer is even aware they are there as in our case. We only lost half of the row prior to discovering the infestation but our lettuce and other greens seem to be fine. We have treated everything at this point just to be on the safe side.

The inconsistencies in the weather this Winter have kept us busy with Hoopty. Since our goal is to open the sides of the high tunnel when temperatures rise above 50 degrees, its been consistently open for days at a time. That is not the issue. The issue is the roller coaster of temperatures that have been the norm (and will most certainly return) means lots of opening and closing of it adding one more chore to a busy farmers’ to do list. We are so happy that the temps seems to be lowering! 80 degrees in December was getting to be a bit much!

Raised Beds & More

We recently re – installed our arched cattle panel trellis that is on the front side of our property. We installed metal t-posts in place of the wooden ones that were there. This Spring we hope to grow melons here so we need it to be real steady! In the beds on each side of it there are plenty of kale and other greens growing currently. Recently the snow peas that are climbing there have also begun to produce. These along with existing ones planted in the high tunnel means there will be plenty for your family as well as ours! Look out for these on the listings page this month!

This month we had large harvests of spinach and arugula. Spinach has been used rapidly in cooking and in salads for the family. Don’t worry we also shared! Some of the arugula was dehydrated using our new dehydrator.

We were really excited to see the Fall and Winter months coming because we really missed our greens. Currently we are growing as many of them as the soil can support! We are growing green, red giant, and purple stemmed mustards, collards, salad turnips, arugula, and about 5 different varieties of kale! We are working hard to keep the worms off so that we can all enjoy the little piece of Winter goodness that nature allows us. You can find all of these goodies over on our Listings page.

This month we will be planting radishes, kohlrabi, fennel, bunching onions, & more! Now you guys know we pride ourselves on growing year round but even we have to admit its a bit difficult and can be overwhelming. One way that we keep things manageable is by doing our best to keep to our planting schedule and keeping a good stock of seeds. See how we inventory and reorder each season here.

The Flock

Well the chickens are doing great! Somehow despite the decreased daylight they are still keeping us supplied with enough eggs for our family. Just this past week we even experienced the highest amount of eggs harvested per day since we got them back in April. We attribute this to the fact that our brooder hen Shrill – x has started back laying and one of her first hatchlings – Zag has also begun laying! We are beyond grateful and as we have extra we will place these on the Listings page as they come available.

The first phase of the run extension is underway! We are adding more protected space for the chickens to forage. In our area large birds of prey are a frequent sight. While we would love to have them free range it just isn’t a safe option. We work hard though to make sure they have all the extra nutrients they need to be happy & healthy members of the Bain Home Gardens team. They eat many herbs from the garden. We jokingly say that we are just pre-seasoning our eggs! The also get extra protein! I mean, what do you think happened to all those worms?! We are currently editing a flock update for the YouTube channel.

Simba’s Pride

We finally settled on a name for our rabbit flock. Yep – Simba’s Pride! Yes, we know a group of bunnies is not considered a pride but we love the pun and are gonna roll with it! Little Simba is not so little anymore. He is growing so fast! I picked him up the other day like whoa – YOU PUT ON WEIGHT! He is quite a healthy boy. Recently he got his first taste of spinach. At first he was iffy about it but he quickly warmed up to the idea. We are happy he did! In the upcoming months we will introduce more veggies to him and Gizmo. You have to slowly introduce new items to them so as not to upset their tummies too much. Just like us they have preferences too. One may love spinach while another may prefer fennel. It is really cute getting to know their little personalities!

Simba also got the opportunity to take his first what we are calling, “bunny walk”. Basically what we did was purchase him a halter with leash. So far we have only been following him around the yard to the grass patches he is interested in eating. We want to eventually get to the point where we can lead him but we realize that will take some time. He is such a smart boy. We will get there.

On January first, Gizmo turned 2 months old. She is the cutest little ball of fur ever! We just introduced her to Simba. We supervised and they got to know each other a bit. Eventually they will be bred together. Can you imagine how beautiful the Calico Lionheads that will result will be?! We look forward to the future with all its furry cuteness!

Being cute is not the only job these fur babies have. They have the responsibility to provide fertilizer for the farm! We collect and compost their manure. As we add more rabbits to the pride we will be able to make this valuable commodity available to our community. We do not have a time table on that but stay tuned!

Unboxings, Setups, & Reviews

This one area is new to me. Admittedly I appreciate watching these type of videos because they educate me and help me decide what products are a good fit for our farm & our family. Well we have been adding more products to facilitate easier homesteading because isn’t it more fun if its easier? Of course and we are more likely to stick with it! We know it will never be “easy” but with certain reliable products we can take the complicated factor out. Our goal for the coming year it to increase food production for ourselves and having the means to process our produce items into usable staples is vital. Another goal is also to buy less and less items from the grocery store. We have done increasingly well with this over the last few years. We have eliminated buying relish, broth, celery, peppers, eggplant, okra, cornbread mix, jellies & jams from the grocery store, to name a few things. Going into 2022 we are hoping to eliminate buying bread – buns and loaf bread. So far we have added several bread making aids and I am really practicing making various recipes to find one that really appeals to our family. I do not want my family to feel like they are missing out on anything buy having homemade bread but I want them to look forward to it like they look forward to salsa canning day and pickled okra canning day. Trust me, those are celebratory days here! So that means mama has to go to work and prefect her technique.

In addition to the bread making tools we have added a Blue Yeti microphone to aid with our podcast and video production. We have added a Cosori dehydrator as well. We have a small Sunbeam dehydrator that we purchased for $5. It is still working but it seems to be dying. Also it does not have temperature settings. We have found that sometimes it burns certain herbs so while we still have it we are reserving it for outdoor pepper dehydration. Since all these items are important for our homestead, we have decided to review them from the small farmer/homesteader view point. These videos will be posted on our YouTube channel as they are edited. We hope our brutally honest videos help you decide if these products could be beneficial for your household too. This arena is new to us so please bear with us as we become more proficient at it.

Bread making is new to me and after only making 3 loaves I can honestly say I’m hooked. Making wheat bread is a bit more challenging. You can see my first attempt at wheat bread here.

As you can see it has been a very busy month and there are no signs of it letting up and that is just fine with us. After all, time flies when you’re homesteading! Have a great month of January – from our family to yours!

Have you checked out our December podcast episodes?

Is that November, complete with losing a whole hour of daylight? Why yes it is and with it those cool nights perfect for a bonfire, marshmallow or wiener roast, or just plain star gazing. Just be sure to bundle up.

November came like a whirlwind for us! It is quite shocking to believe that the year is less than 60 days from being over! Then again, the whole year has really been like that – just flying by. We have been busy but doing nothing new, just much of the same – plant, weed, harvest, and repeat. This month’s newsletter will be quite brief as there isn’t really much going on.

Hoopty Goings On

We are happy to report that the high tunnel is nearly full! There are a total of 12 rows in the high tunnel each with the potential to be double planted (one row on each side of the drip tape). If you are wondering what that looks like, perhaps the outline below will help.

• Row one – Here we have an established row of strawberries that have been there since the Spring planting of 2020. This is there home. We fertilize them quarterly. This year we added some Rosemary to the row in a gap where several strawberry plants died.
• Row two – This row housed our Swiss Chard which gave way to pest pressure. We had planned to leave it until it went to seed but the pests had other plans. The row has been cleared and weed barrier has been laid down to aid in weed suppression. Carrots, radishes, or beets will be planted here within the month.
• Row three – This row has bell and hot peppers planted. It will be over-wintered in the high tunnel with the aid of frost blankets on the really cold nights.
• Row four – On this row you will find basil, kale, Asian greens, and green beans. The last of the green beans will be harvested this week and this part of the row will be replanted with some lettuce or spinach after some amending.
• Row five – This row holds a trial we are running. We have planted on one side of the tape parsnips and on the other side lettuce. If you have ever grown parsnips you know they can be particularly difficult to germinate. This has meant that we have done a couple of plantings to ensue that as much of the row as possible is being utilized. Time will tell how parsnips grow in the high tunnel.
• Row six – This row houses more hot peppers, in fact the hottest that we grow – The Carolina Reaper. These will also be over-wintered. We also have some banana, serrano, jalapeno, and Italian roasting peppers on this row. These will be pulled and the soil amended to prepare for planting brassicas.
• Row seven – Holds our beautiful parsley – flat and curled leaf and more, you guessed it – peppers! The peppers will be removed and we hope to plant more curly kale along with more parsley on this row.
• Row eight – This row was just planted with turnips and a few short season artichokes that we are experimenting with.
• Row nine – On this row you will find peppers and eggplant which were over – wintered last year. It is amazing to me when I realize that this entire row was planted in Spring of 2020! Most of the plants actually increased in production and the Bell peppers are far larger than last year! Unfortunately, we are finally seeing signs that these guys are ready to rest. We hope to harvest the remaining peppers and eggplant then pull the plants. This soil will definitely need some amending. We will likely add compost and allow it to lay fallow till the Spring.
• Row ten – This row has been planted with new Swiss Chard and Snap peas.
• Row eleven – This home to our established mustards and marigolds that will soon be tilled under to serve as green manure and natural fungicide.
• Row twelve – This end row has our carrot varieties. Also on this row we have Greek Oregano.

Do you now see why we are so happy to have the high tunnel full? Hoopty is a lot of work to be sure but we have thoroughly enjoyed working in it and learning how to be productive in our growing practices. We will soon be hosting a field day through the Beginning Farmer Program through the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. If you are interested in learning how to grow in a high tunnel, control pests in a high tunnel, or even learn about grant opportunities to build a high tunnel of your own, this field day is for you! Be sure to follow our social media outlets for all the details.

As temperatures are dropping we will begin closing the sides of the high tunnel at night and opening in the morning. This time of the year is hard because a normally self maintaining system needs a bit more attention. It is important that we do so however because this will keep the soil from getting too cool which would really slow the growth of the Fall veggies aforementioned. Once we get back into the groove it won’t be so bad.

Despite all of the planting we have done we still have not planted our flower bulbs or onions. The good thing about most of our flowering bulbs is that they are perennial and will be returning on their own. Each year we like to add a new variety to add to the beauty of the farm and to harvest for beautiful arrangements. This Fall we are adding yellow tulips and a peppermint tulip. If they look anything like the photo I’m sure you will love them as much as we do! It brings us much joy to harvest and arrange a fresh bouquet and deliver them. If you would like to know more about our Flowers by BHG service click here.

More Fall Planting

As far as onions we didn’t order any bulbs this year. This opens the way for us to try to grow our own from seed. We recognize that t is rather late to be doing so as most onions take up to a week to even germinate! Still we are going to give it a go. If we find success great; if not, well now we know! Either way we will take you along on the ride. We plan to plant both white and red varieties.

This Week’s Listings

We are happy to offer our Purple Stemmed Mustard for the first time this week! This first harvest will be small so if you are interested we suggest you jump on these before they are gone. Along with those greens we also are offering Arugula and Chijimisa. The season has almost come to an end for most of our eggplant as most of them are not planted in the high tunnel however we will have them for one more week. In addition to our herbs we also will have sweet peppers. If you are wanting a bit of everything then the Farm Sampler Basket may be more your speed. All available to you from our family to yours.

Why hello October! We are excited to see you! For a change we can actually feel it in the air. There has been so much activity here on the farm!

Reflection

When I look back at The Goings On for October 2020 I realized that this is the common thing this time of year for us. Last year it seems we had an abundance of eggplants as well. Our Scotch Bonnet Peppers reached their peak harvest period this month last year. This year, however they have been super productive since around June. This explains why we have several quarts in the freezer at the moment! I think the reason for this is that we over wintered some in Hoopty. We also replanted more in the high tunnel and in a raised bed. Yeah man – there’s plenty to go around!

Looking back I also see that we were harvesting Sweet Potatoes as well. I’m so hurt that we didn’t even plant them this year! What kind of homesteader am I – NO SWEET POTATOES?! See what happened was – of course this is how every outlandish story starts – I started the process of trying to order them super early. It must have been too early because the company we usually order from wasn’t even sure they were going to be able to order them this year because of shipping issues so they referred me to their supplier who quickly informed me that it was a couple months too early to order but to let them know what exactly I was looking for and they would email me once the slips are available to order. Here is the problem… once I sent them the information, my brain checked “buying Sweet Potato slips” of the to do list. So I’m sitting wondering where my slips are when I NEVER ORDERED THEM!!!! (FACEPALM) Yep, that happened. I blame it on the increased complicated nature of life due to COVID. This Fall/Winter we are building a deep raised bed that will be primarily used for root crops and planted with cover crop when not in use. I hope seeing this be will remind me to order appropriately! As a result I will not be able to offer the sweet potato bread this year in the Shena’s Baked Creations shop. Apologies folks. On the brighter side the shop will open on October 25th for preorders and stay open (baring unforeseen circumstances) till January sometime.

Last year our Asian greens where doing great! We already had one round in harvest mode while the next one had already been planted. This year we are one batch behind. We are also using a different variety of this year as well in an effort to find one more resistant to the beetles. We think we have found exactly what we need! They grow a tad bit slower but are holding up nicely!

Last year we started a few new crops to experiment with. One of these was Artichoke. We planted it in the high tunnel as well as in the field areas but neither did great. The most success was in the field areas which we will be trying again this month.

Last year our supplies for the community were more limited because were also planting for the Fall CSA. Since we are not currently participating in the CSA we have more options for our community and that in of itself is a reason to smile just a bit. We hope you guys take advantage of all our offerings over on our listings page or our Square Site. If you prefer you can always email or text us with a list of items you want to get and we can create a farm box for you and send an invoice. There are plenty of options for getting your home grown goodness!

Harvesting

Well if you haven’t noticed by our various Instagram and Facebook posts & videos peppers and eggplants are really overt the top right now! From sweet peppers to spicy peppers – all of them our growing so well right now. As a result we have been freezing the peppers to give me plenty to do this Winter when the farm chores are a bit lighter. As for the eggplant, the preservation technique of preference has certainly become dehydrating. We are using them quite a bit too in our weekly meal prep and also at breakfast. We also just learned how to make Baba Ganoush. Its a hit with this family!

We did get to harvest the potatoes and it was such a disappointment! The seed potatoes themselves weren’t even there! How is that possible?! Best we can figure is that due to the excessively wet season, perhaps they rotted and broke down in the soil. It was definitely one of the the strangest things to ever happen here on the farm. Our son, who was assigned the job, seemed to think I was pranking him because even at the worse harvest we have had in the past – SOMETHING was there. If you guys have any ideas as to what could have happened please do send me an email!

We just harvested arugula again and will be harvesting it once a month (if the planting schedule holds) through the Winter. That number could extend to every six weeks as the cooler months take hold.

Although it wasn’t a large harvest, in fact it was one single solitary pepper, we are so excited about it that we have to share with you that we harvested our very first Carolina Reaper pepper just this evening! You can celebrate this Bain Home Gardens first by watching the harvest here. Also the Fish Pepper plant that we found at Whole Foods is bearing beautifully! There are many peppers on the bush but we are waiting for them to turn red.

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I am proud to say we have harvested the very last of the Thai beans for the year! These things have be so super abundant in their production this year that I literally became tired of harvesting, cooking, and preserving them! This is our third year planting them and I’m suspicious that they must just love the rain and heat we had this year because this is the by far the best year to date! We pulled them primarily because the leaf footed bugs and aphids were becoming an nuisance but I cannot say I was sad to see them go.

This month we also harvested a small soybean harvest. We had planted them with the mail purpose of serving as a cover crop but the harvest was a nice bonus.

Planting

This month is the month to plant our flowering bulbs, onions, and garlic. Although in our zone you can plant later, we find the most success when we plant in October. Beds are currently being amended to accommodate these heavy feeders. We are sticking with the garlic varieties that were successful for us this harvest season. We are primarily using our own seed stock to replant for this season while supplementing with a few we ordered. Finding success with the garlic crop this year means that we are in a new position to possibly offer our community Certified Naturally Grown seed stock come Fall of 2022! That prospect is absolutely mind blowing! Stay tuned!

As far as onions go we weren’t able to order sets before our sources were sold out. Now I am relegated to creating our own starts. For this I am late as well which leaves me no choice other than to plant these in the high tunnel. Besides that, I’m not very excited to plant onions because they are such a struggle for me. If it wasn’t for the fact that we use them so much I would probably would just give up on them altogether. Then I am reminded of the struggles I had with carrots & garlic – both of which we had a bumper crop of this year! The moral of this story is DON’T GIVE UP!

Last month we planted fennel, kale varieties, lettuce, parsnips, cauliflower, broccoli, kohlrabi, cabbage, mustards, collards, peas, leaf broccoli, and swiss chard. You would think with all this planting we would be done for the season but that is just not the case! Some of these plantings were not successful for various reasons. We start early so as to allow enough time to restart if need be. Cabbage and broccoli are being stubborn for me so far but all a farmer can do is regroup and replant! I should coin that because that is quite literally my whole life these days!

Of the leafy greens we like to plant we have yet to plant spinach. Of the root crops yet (besides the aforementioned) to be planted is beets, turnips and a succession planting of carrots. As beds have been cleared and amended its clear we have the space to get these items planted, however, we just have to find the time!

We are taking what we learned last year and we are trying our hand at the artichoke again. I will be starting these indoors this evening!

The Flock

The flock is doing very well. I am very happy with just how well they are flourishing! Our brooder, Shrill-x has done it again and hatched out another chick. This one is not biologically hers but there is no telling her that! She does very well protecting her new chick and training it too. She gives Zig and Zag a run for their money at every feeding! Besides the newest chick she is the smallest chicken in the coop but it doesn’t matter – SHE IS MAMA! She trusts us with the chicks which is absolutely amazing! The chick on the other hand as you can see in this video does not! It is by far the noisiest chick I have ever heard! It was natural of course to name it Noisy! You can check out this video for more flock updates.

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The Rabbits

We sadly lost 2 of our adult rabbits. It is amazing how quickly you can get attached to the little fur balls. To be on the safe side we took our doe to the vet. Did you know that rabbits are considered “exotic”. I find that ironic considering they are randomly in the wild all over our community. There is only one vet in our city that will see rabbits – one! Thankfully he is very knowledgeable and patient. He put her on a four week treatment & she is all clear. For those that have asked she has been mated to the buck and we should have kits available soon.

This Week’s Listings

This week we are making our Rosemary and Lemongrass available for purchase. The Lemongrass is only being offered the first two weeks of this month as we need to trim it back and mulch it soon to prepare it for the first frost. So if interested please grab it while it is available. Jalapenos were accidentally removed but have been added back. Arugula has also been relisted and Green Mustards remain this week until supplies are exhausted. For a full list of what is currently available head on over to the listings page.

Well that about covers it! See you in November!