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 Dear Readers,
Hi there, I am your teenage view of the farm, aka "Heritage." Now I have never done this before so bear with me please. My blog here is to tell you what I am doing on the farm, well seeing as I am sick and it is raining I have done nothing so far. Imagine that, the first day of spring and I got a bad cold. Oh well, life goes on.
We have been doing farm work, a little late, seeings we had a this rain and cold spell, but we did our best. So drum roll please and sit back and read.
The first thing we did was clean, not the fun part but the relatively easy part, we pulled away the old and prepare the new. We made raised beds (this is where you make a frame, and us being true farmers, we use old straw bails instead of using wood or metal for frames). Farmers are mad scientist at heart, always experimenting. OK, once you have your frame you fill with all kinds of goodies: dirt, compost, broken up leaves, etc.) We also do the lasagna beds which is like a raised bed put with out the frame, cardboard (which will keep the weeds at bay, break down, and the worms love them), leaves, goat poop (I don’t like it when mom says we need more stuff for our garden, why? Because that means us kids must muck the barn,) straw, etc., which is layering a bed, hence the name lasagna bed, and all that stuff will break down into black gold. We are also hiring someone to till. I never did like tilling, not only is it more work, you also break the dirt’s structure and all the good living things in there, and weeds love the till. But people have been doing it for years and it does have it’s benefits, especially if you want to cover crop.
So we cleaned our beds and planted everything in there that we could for now. Us kids get a percentage of what we sell at the Farmers Market, plus they are good to eat, two things humans like. Just don’t get greedy about it. Also, don’t chew off more than you can chew when it comes to your garden.
Alright, we all have our special plants, like Bluebird (my sister’s blog name) does the flowers, I do the root crops, and my other sister takes care of the herbs. I don’t know how we were chosen for these particular types of veggies/herbs, inasmuch as we all seem to weed, work, plant, and water all of these plants. I don’t mind, I love root crops, I don’t know if there is a gross root crop, but to me, beets, yuk!
Now that we planted and rotated (you rotate your cool and warm crops so the bugs will get confused) what we could.
I know I am making this a bit long, but bear with me, for we do not just do veggies, fruits (we planted some apples, which is another crop I love) and berries, and we also have livestock.
We have chickens (which I could live with out) and goats (which I love.)
Seeings I love goats, I will write about them first. Our goats are dairy. We have three types of dairy, and 2 brush/boer goats to hang out with our dairy buck. Dairy goats are more colorful, lanky and skinnier, and the boer goats are shorter and chunkier for meat, even though we will not be eating them. The two different types of goats are both smart but the boers seem to be more lazy, while the dairy are more curious so they are troublemakers.
Anyway, our females are pregnant, so we stopped milking them so they have all that energy to put into their babies. Our tall black doe, Midnight, gave birth to a girl (our first baby girl in three years) and the baby only nurses on one teat so we milked the other. We got our first jar of goat milk the day before spring. YES!!! Do you think we should have a goat milk festival? Well, I am reading a good book, and have a baby chick in my room that is not doing so well. I have a light on always for the chick and it keeps waking me up in the night.
Heritage here and out.
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