Doug and Sean were busy marking off pasture for their poultry to roam around on today. Solitude is nice, but I think that it will be nice to have some chicken friends and other folks out there periodically during the day while I work alone. Livestock and poultry are also a great way to add nutrients essential to growing crops to the land we work. Currently we only use certified organic fertilizer that is from Steubers yet it remains difficult to tell where it came from. Having said this, having a nitrogen input available on site will be fantastic. I hope to work with Team Big Rock and have chickens pastured for a few days where our corn and jack-o-lanterns will be growing.
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I spent Friday afternoon on the tractor moving 25 yards of woods chips. It took almost every chip to build driving ramps for the bridge and we can now walk into to the field without having to put on waders and live without the constant threat of getting stuck in Weiss Creek. As soon as the weather permits, it will be plow time. I am a little embarrassed about the late date that we are doing this, but the snow and bridge have really set us behind. I have all of my fingers and toes crossed for plowing Monday evening or Tuesday morning.
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That's cool with the chicken thing. How many birds will they have there? Is it going to be for eggs or meat or both?
ReplyDeleteAnd hey Mike, I want to see about bring my farm team to visit your farm this year. Probably on a Monday. I thought it would be super cool to show them what a starting up farmer, with no land and not a lot of cash, can do! Also...we could plan on providing our hands to help you accomplish a task while we were there? Whatcha think?
Okay. So I wrote a long reply and apparently Firefox 4 wants third party cookies to be turned on before I can post. ...and that reply disappeared into the ether.
ReplyDeleteAs of now I have no real idea how many birds Doug and Sean will be growing this season. The one thing I do know for sure is that fast-growing broilers make a LOT of manure.
Our valley is cool and wet pretty far into spring so we won't have much for us to do until things start to warm up a bit. You rain shadow and well drained sand-loam soil is dreamy. ...mmmmmmmm. so nice! We'll set up a Monday for the future and do a cookout at the beach field too. If you wait until it is hot out we can all go swimming, but I am not into the skinny dipping English farmer thing ;)