Our Lady's Windy Acres

Time for an update!!

Wow!  I can't believe I've let 6 weeks slide by without posting!  I can't keep a journal of our journey to self-sufficiency if I don't write, no matter whether photobucket is working for me or not, so here I go.

The garden has done amazingly well!  I'm now harvesting cukes and romaine lettuce, and everything else seems to be coming up well.  The potatoes had an infestation of flea beetles, but I found an organic spray to use on them so so far so good.

Our chickens have grown into lovely young ladies, and I'm waiting impatiently for eggs in about a month.  I'm thinking that I maybe should expand into meat chickens, but I don't know if I'm ready for doing the killing and dressing.  Hubby isn't into that so I can't very well ask him to do something I wouldn't do.  It's unfortunately one of those things that you can't learn too well from books, imho.  Perhaps I can get my neighbors to teach me.  I've also been thinking about getting a mini-Dexter dairy cow for milk and butter and cheese.

I want to expand our orchard, too, because these old trees we inherited are on their way out.  We did plant 4 new apple trees this year, but I think I may have to jump start that next year and plant twice as many, as well as expanding the different kinds of fruit.

Hopefully God will give me enough time to get my self-unsufficient act together before the world hits the skids.

Have a blessed day and week, everyone!