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| The chicks are now five days old and doing great! |
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| They live in this brooder. Cost to build: $0 |
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| Modest exterior |
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| We have not lost one yet. |
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| New portal is great! |
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| Hens |
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| Beets, broccoli and lettuce, collards and more beets recently planted. |
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| Potatoes |
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| Beds with shade cloth; L to R: wild arugula, mustards and kyoto carrots, then sunflowers, tomatillos, marigolds, calendula and hot peppers, then radishes, spinach, chard, beets, broccoli, and more! |
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| Volunteer tomato in with chard. |
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| Cover crop of rye and buckwheat |
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| Planting of Amaranth |
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| Planting of Red Scallions, Carrots and lettuce |
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| Second planting of the Blue Corn |
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| Tomatillos to the left and under shade with micro sprinklers is carrots, lettuce and radicchio. |
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| In the next few weeks we are preperaing this area for a fall planting of more greens, carrots, herbs, beets and hopefully some sun chokes, strawberries and asparagus. We have big plans but can really only move one day at a time..,.. coming soon is a high tunnel greenhouse or two as well as more solar off the grid technology and pasture for more layers. Exciting time to be a farmer. |
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| Calendula in a hollowed pine log and popcorn is tall! |
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| View to the East |
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| Tomatillos and a propped up sunflower |
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| Beans with lettuce mix growing underneath and pickling cucumbers growing up the other side. |
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| These were volunteers! |
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| Carrots, tomatoes and basil |
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| zucchini is lowing this location/ micro-climate, calendula in between plants and radishes all over too. |
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| New planting of pak-choi, chard, radish and lettuce. |
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| Chicken pasture is growing |
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| herb garden |
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| new roof on the new portal |
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| Birds eye view west of the house |
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| arroyo |
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| A-frame greenhouse with our three hoop houses and the cold frame behind them. We planted beets and cabbage in the cold frame today and last week planted chard and kale and broccoli raab and radishes in the hoop house to the left. |
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| Carrots we bought from Gemini farms |
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| Ginger carrots |
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| Once we added salt and enough water to cover all the carrots they went in the closet to ferment for a week or two. |
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| Fermentation closet; in there now is porter and red chile porter, apple cider and carrots, both ginger and garlic |
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| Pantry above the washer |
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| Burning scrap wood |
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| Flower beds made from hollowed out pine logs |
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| Happy hens |
