Spring Update

 

It has been a soggy few weeks, we are glad for these few hot sunny days. Both the winter and spring small grain is growing fast, and now with the warmer weather on to planting beans and corn.  Some of the winter wheat is just starting to head up. Adam put ribbons on the earliest heads so that we can save seed from these.

We are now raising red heritage meat chickens. Our seed cleaner not only blows out the chaff, weed seeds and the odd grasshopper, but also grain that is much smaller or broken. We decided this would make good chicken feed, and in combination with pasture (they love burdock!), and a supplemental organic grain mix that we soon hope to replace with our own blend.

Save the Date! - The farm tour day will be August 28th. More information soon. Arnie's hay wagon we use for hay rides is over 100 years old, made in the last century in Central Pennsylvania craftsmen who brought the design over with them from Germany. It is made for loose hay, which is why it has sloped raised sides, instead of the flat bottom on modern wagons created for baled hay. “It is perfect for hay rides, because you can fluff a lot of hay in it, and people can flop in the loose floppy hay” according to Arnie.