Back at work on the pig pasture
"Do you want to see the
cutest snake in the world?" I called down to Mark from the edge of the pig pasture. I had found a Rough
Green Snake (the first one I've ever seen!) in the lumber we'd stacked
for our new coop/pig shed, and Mark was very
willing to walk up the hill for the chance of a peek.
Which is all a long way
of telling you that we're back at work on the new pasture. Not
that things have slowed down at all --- the weeds are growing a mile a
minute --- but the broilers are too. We plan to keep about ten of
this year's first batch of broilers to replace our two-year-old layers,
and those pullets need somewhere to live between when the new
broilers get their
pasture and then they begin to lay. (At laying time, our new
flock will take over the quarters of our current laying flock, while
the old hens go into our tummies.)
In completely unrelated,
but delectable, news, we ate the first strawberry of 2013 on
Tuesday. I suspect the floodgates will open soon, since lots of
half-ripe fruits like this one are scattered amid the beds. Our
long wait is finally over!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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