What's happening around the farm.
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese on Feb 28th, 2009
I have a post from last year showing a chick and a gosling together. Well, here is a comparison of a goose egg and a “large” chicken egg. A USDA “large” egg weighs .12 to .13 pounds. The goose egg weighs .41 pounds. As long as I’m listing sizes, in case you are curious: medium [...]
Posted in CSA, Vegetables on Feb 22nd, 2009
The seeds, except for seed potatoes are ordered and mostly here. There is a LOT behind that statement. With 100 summer and 60 fall shareholders, I need to “know what I’m doing”. Here is a little outline of CSA planning. I was fortunate to be able to purchase an Excel spreadsheet from a farm that [...]
Posted in Vegetables on Feb 16th, 2009
Here is what you see when you walk into our hoophouse in the winter. The white stuff is a spun poly like interfacing used in sewing. It adds about 4° F protection when it gets cold but is well above freezing. Below freezing, the colder it gets the more protection it can afford. I have [...]
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese on Feb 8th, 2009
This is our second year, second winter, with ducks. I have been relieved, but somewhat surprised, that we have not had owl predation. The ducks are nocturnal, and though we provide shelter, they prefer to roam around at night. We have not been locking them in because night has been their peace time without any [...]
Posted in Vegetables on Feb 6th, 2009
Plant growth is dependent on temperature and on light, and other things. We can plant cold hardy greens in the hoophouse in the fall and they grow well into late October. They really slow down as the days get shorter and pretty much hibernate through December and January. If you pick frozen greens they turn [...]