March Updates

Hey all, it's been a crazy month and it is only Mid-March! I feel like we are in the waiting zone where you know the storm is coming, you can see it on the horizon, but you are stuck waiting to see how long it takes to hit. Only switch and make it the crazy time of spring planting, and the wait for temperatures to be slightly more controlled and less of a rollercoaster!

Currently all of the early plants, Ranunculus, Lisianthus, Anemone, Broccoli, and Cauliflower, are waiting to go outside! As soon as the temps quit dropping to low 20s at night they will be headed out!

The grow room is max capacity waiting for the last freeze of the year! Quick growing warm plants will get started at the end of the month as well as later successions of the earlier planted seeds!

The miserable temperatures we had in December (wind chill -27 Degrees F) was too much for 2 of my hives, both the same type of long horizontal hive. So just the one remaining! I had two surgeries this winter so have not been able to walk down to watch for activity as much as I would have liked from the one remaining hive. I was so happy to see a bee on our porch the first week of March! I am eagerly awaiting the warmer weather we are currently predicted, so that I can hopefully get into the hive in the next two weeks to give them new frames to expand and fill with their winter supplies for next year and surplus honey to be harvested in the fall for you! Currently we still have honey for sale in the Store from last season.

The ducks and chickens are doing really well, and I am currently surrounded by eggs! I am going to mark a couple and leave them in the coop to see if I can convince a hen or duck to hatch them out as an experiment. I don't have any particularly "broody" ones and I don't "Need" any more ducks or hens right now but... I am hoping to be able to hatch out ducklings and chicks next year to have for sale so this will be a good test!

I can't wait to get my hands back outside in the dirt and am hoping to update this blog on a monthly/bimonthly basis! It might be scarier to me to do a blog then starting seeds that are hard to germinate! It gives me an easy outlet to share pictures of what is going on here at the farm! So, I shall endeavor to put in the effort to give you a glimpse into our world!