Our Lady's Windy Acres

New Year on the Farm

I can't believe I let so much time pass between postings. Of course, a broken foot and a computer in the basement might have had something to do with that! 

Well with winter sort of settling in - I wish it would make up its mind...it's time for me to go over what we accomplished here at OLWA, and figure on our plans for the upcoming year.

The laying hens were a big success!  We bought Barred Plymouth Rocks - only 15 of them since our learning curve was a steep one, and they're all fat, sassy, and giving us a dozen eggs a day!  Our garden (60x30) worked out well, with the exception of the rhubarb and gooseberry plants, and our potatoes got a flea beetle infestation, but everything else went very well!  We need to all work harder at the weeding, and I need to do more succession planting rather than all at once LOL!  I also need to make myself can more instead of procrastinating!  I'll be better next summer, especially if I have the right equipment!

So...next year's tentative plans are to expand the garden, put some more fruit trees in the orchard, make best use of the garden produce that I can, and perhaps venture into another breed or layers or even (gulp) meat chickens!!!!

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10:11, Monday, February 4, 2008 .. Posted by gabbie427

Hope your foot gets better so you ca blog more.

God's Blessings,
Amy Jo