We have been staying busy over here throughout the past few weeks. Our garden is completely planted and the greenhouse is almost empty besides a few straggler pepper plants that will find their way into containers in the coming weeks. We also dismantled our old garden trellis and built a whole new one that isContinue reading “Anatomy of a Beehive”
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We’re Back!
We’re back! Or I guess I should say we’ve been back, but we hit the ground running between our full time jobs and our long list of farm tasks and I haven’t had a chance to sit down and put my fingertips to the keyboard. So, first things first. While we were gone, the temperaturesContinue reading “We’re Back!”
Gambling on Pole Beans
Holy moly we have been productive over the past two weeks! Between the warm weather and the help from my parents, we have knocked out everything on our to-do lists plus some items on our extended to-do lists. It is worth mentioning that we’ve been motivated by the fact that we will be away fromContinue reading “Gambling on Pole Beans”
No Time for Typing
It’s officially the season where the days are getting longer and our to-do list follows suit. It seems that for every task we cross off the list, we add on at least two more. With the increasing daylight hours and our abundance of spring projects, we’ve been left with no time for typing. So, here’sContinue reading “No Time for Typing”
Full Steam Ahead
Even though spring doesn’t officially start for another 12 days, we are rolling full steam ahead with spring activities on the farm. We aren’t the only ones already in spring mode around here – the chickens are finally starting to pick up their egg laying game! We even had a few days this past weekContinue reading “Full Steam Ahead”
To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
It’s official! The 2021 gardening season is underway at Elder Oaks Farm! Two years ago, we constructed a greenhouse that we purchased online. Our two summer gardens since then have been started completely from seeds with lots of trials, errors, successes, and failures along the way. Since we’ve gotten pretty good at growing our vegetablesContinue reading “To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow”
Unsolicited Chick Pics
They’re here! Our twelve new baby chicks have arrived! It has been two years since we’ve raised chicks, and although not raising chicks was a welcomed break last year, we have to admit that we missed having the irresistibly cute little chirping fluff balls around. They are such a joy to have at this stageContinue reading “Unsolicited Chick Pics”
The Calm Before the Spring
Springtime on the farm is fast approaching. Although spring doesn’t technically start until March 20th according to the calendar, springtime on the farm starts much sooner – as in next week for us! Based on our growing zone (8b), we always start our first round of seeds in the greenhouse during the second week ofContinue reading “The Calm Before the Spring”
Return of the Egg Song
At the beginning of the week, I was asking myself what in the world I would possibly have to write about by the time the end of the week rolled around. This time of year is characteristically uneventful around here, and don’t get me wrong – uneventful is definitely a good thing, but it makesContinue reading “Return of the Egg Song”
One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Fertilizer
We haven’t had a whole lot going on this week, but we did check one major thing off of our to-do list: winter compost utilization! Since we finished overhauling the empty garden areas last week, it was time to finally start moving some compost. We built our current compost bin with two separate sides toContinue reading “One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Fertilizer”
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