For some unknown reason Steve and I were a full page spread in the local paper on the Local Farm Tour that was held last week. If you want to see them, go to wwwmonadnockledger, then go to photos, then go to Rotary farm tour or something like that. Here it is:ledgertranscript.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1284224&CategoryID=48624&ListSubAlbums=0
We have finally separated the girls now from Fred and Jack, don't want Fred to become a father too early in his buck career, so after a few go-rounds, the girls are now in the big pasture with the big goats and the boys are in the lower pasture. The meat birds are finally big enough to be let out of the chicken tractor and are happily in their electric fence grazing away. In fact all of the baby birds are outside in their respective tractors.
The garden is really starting to come into its own now. No tomatoes yet, but lots of peas, broad beans or Fava beans as we call them here. I have started to dig the fingerling potatoes for dinners. The potato plants were so out of control a few weeks back it was like a jungle out there, so I pruned the plants. we will see what develops (no pun there). So far the plants are looking better.
I have currants, both red and black coming out of my ears, and I just seem to catch up with the raspberries. It looks as though I'm going to have a really good crop of grapes for once so I want to get some bird netting over them.
All our stuff we shipped from Australia has come. It was like Christmas unpacking everything, then the fun began trying to find homes for all the stuff, but it so wonderful to have our things that remind us so much of our trip.
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