What's happening around the farm.
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese on Feb 28th, 2010
We found our first duck egg of the year this morning. This means we need to keep the ducks in later in the morning. When a duck gets serious about hatching some eggs, she will build a nest and lay her eggs in it. But when she’s not serious about making babies, she just drops [...]
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese on Feb 24th, 2010
The hens pretty much stayed inside today – they don’t like fresh snow. Even the ducks weren’t happy about the snow, but they decided lots of space out in the snow was better than cooped up inside. When it is above freezing we hook hoses up and give them swimming water. The really enjoy it. [...]
Posted in Bees, Vegetables on Feb 24th, 2010
I went down Monday while it was sunny and checked on the bees and the veggies that are under row cover in the field. First, take a look at the chard! I am amazed. After the snow melted and we had those cold temps I thought the chard would be dead. If this keeps up [...]
Posted in General on Feb 15th, 2010
The newspapers here didn’t show the fun Saranac Lake Winter Carnival parade. The theme of this year’s carnival was “Adirondack Cowboys”. The Adirondack Green Circle marched as the “Free-Range Wranglers” with signs identifying local farms that provide great food to the Saranac Lake Village Farmers Market. The Adirondack Green Circle has been a huge help [...]
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese, Vegetables on Feb 2nd, 2010
Last December before the price went up I bought 3 sling bags of Vermont Compost. They came today (no it was not poor service – I told them I didn’t need them until February). These are big, heavy bags as you can see by comparison with me standing by them. The shipping paper says 5000 [...]