Bad chickens eating the tomatoes!

 Our garden is off to a great start, thanks to Debra Young for donating a trailer full of horse manure, and Isaiah House composting all year.Our soil is fantastic this year.  We have already enjoyed our first crop pickings of cucumbers, squash and zucchini. Tomaotes are about to turn red, if I can keep the chickens away from them.

My beautiful garden!

We have planted a variety of tomatoes and peppers, bush beans, string beans and snap peas. We have okra, cucumbers, squash, zucchini, eggplant, watermelon and cantelope. And of course, a plentiful herb garden where we enjoy fresh herbs and I also dry them for use later in the year. Bon Appetit!

Caspian at five weeks

Caspian is now two months old. Amazingly enough he can now actually impregnate…! We will be “wethering” him next week to prevent this[unless someone contacts me who wants a registerable Sannen buckling].

We now have four goats and they are an absolute joy!

Mamma Lucy looking for a snack!

This Lucy, my Sannen goat who gave birth to a doe and buckling on April 9, 2010. It was very exciting! The goal is to be able to milk Lucy and make cheese.

So far, she has proven very difficult!

This year our garden is off to a great start. We have been composting and rotating our food scraps for the garden all year. The winter compost has yielded rich dark soil and a plethora of worms! And thanks to my friend, Debra Young, who brought us a trailer load of horse manure, the garden is enjoying even greater nutrients! We have planted corn, several varieties of beans, tomatoes and peppers, peas and okra.  We planted squash, zucchini, cucumbers and eggplant, and of course an herb garden. Yesterday the watermelon was planted and cantaloupe is to follow. It should be a great crop! Hopefully [with a little deterrent I have yet to come up with] our chickens will not eat up all our cantaloupe, tricking me by leaving just the outside shell like they did last year!

Lots of varieties of tomatoes this year.