The dogs barked, the ducks quacked and we were out of bed in a flash. It was only 4:00am but we were wide awake and down to the barn to check on our baby ducks and meat birds. We found them all safely tucked in for the night in their chicken tractors, but we had to check on them, just in case, as their electric fence hasn't been hooked up yet and we have had a roaming fox, phew!
We have been sooooo busy since our last past getting the farmlet ready for the "Manure Tour" we haven't stopped. The real name for the tour is the "Farm and Food" tour, or something like that, where you can drive around the region looking at local food providers, ranging from CSA's, compost manufacturers, small family farms, and people like us that just farm and garden because we like to know where our food comes from. Anyway, we have had three months to get ready for this tour, and it seems like every waking moment we have been getting ready. It also has been crazy because we had been away for a year, so we had a lot of catching up to do anyway. Wish us luck on Saturday please, hopefully we will have lots of people coming thru that will make all the extra hard work worthwhile.
We now have added our baby Dwarf Nigerian goats Jack and Truffle to the farm and they seem to be quite happy living down in the lower paddock with Fred and Ginger. Fred and said he's boss and that is that, but all are doing well.
The raspberries are coming into season as are the red and black currants. It looks as though my blueberries are going to be a bust, from the lack of rain last year? Oh well, I will look forward to next years fruit now.
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