The chickens are free!
The chicks are fattening up quickly - it seems like they grow every day
…but don’t worry, they haven’t escaped. We finally finished the fence around their little chicken coop so they get wander freely during the day. Their new favorite pastimes include chasing bugs, tunneling through the barley, and scratching and nibbling at oats and little green grasses. We can already tell that they are much happier now they are not confined in their chicken coop.
Chelsea and Colin pose with our happy chicks
Natasha tries to entice the chicks out of their coop by sprinkling feed in the barley
Colin came out yesterday morning to help us finish the chicken pen. We may have spent more time than necessary playing with the chickens once they were released… The Carlson’s retired neighbor, Lyle, has been checking up on the chickens (and us!!) every morning for the last week. His wife came out to take a look at the garden today, and referred to Lyle as our ‘inspector.’ We enjoy Lyle’s company and the expertise he shares with us from his years of farming. Lyle even brought us fresh picked raspberries from his garden.
After spending too much time with the chickens, we got down to business weeding. We can finally cross weed the winter squash off of our to-do list! Thanks to everyone’s persistence we mowed down what was practically a field of weeds to find the squash. Hooray!
Today we spend a considerable amount of time preparing for the Riverwalk Market Fair tomorrow morning. The Carlsons left on vacation to Canada for two weeks this morning, leaving us completely responsible for the farm in their absence. We’re excited to test this autonomy and push ourselves to function independently of the wonderful help they’ve provided this week. We have keys to the truck, a table to stack our produce on, and a tent to keep it shady. Hopefully that will be enough!
In other news we kept weeding, thinning root crops, trellising tomatoes, and spraying BT today. We’ll be back out bright and early tomorrow morning for some more harvesting. Hope to see you at the market!
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