* build another pig tractor. (did i mention that we got 2 more pigs?)
* build a 5X5 brooder pen for the 100 cornish X cockerels that are coming April 14.
* build at least 12 10'X4' raised garden beds
* maintenance and *fix* tiller
* buy seeds: beans, cukes, sunflower, corn, summer and winter squash....
* buy 250 lb potatoes: 100 lb. kennebec, 50lb. red Pontiac, 50lb. Yukon gold and 50lb. purple variety.
* buy 15lb. onion sets: 10lb. purple onions, 5+lb. white onions, and 5+lb. yellow keeper onions.
* drywall upstairs.
* finish wiring upstairs
* plan several quilt classes for BF.
* finish girls' room, so they can move upstairs in the spring after M comes home.
* clean out high tunnel
* build a few more chicken hoop houses.
* hatch out 42 buff orpingtons in Dave's incubator (Christmas gift) so we'll have a new flock of laying hens.
* find, and hatch out some turkey eggs. also some ducks.
* till, and plant cold weather crops in the high tunnel.
* plow and disc lower garden.
* buy, and butcher another (full grown) pig. our sausage is almost all gone, and we need (would like to have) enough pork to last us until we butcher again next December.
* get manure for raised beds. fortunately, I've lined up a (dump?) truck that we can borrow. this task will take several days, and many trips.
* start 2 raised beds of strawberries.
* Dave would like to plant raspberries this year.
1 comment:
Pig tractor? I don;t know if I have ever seen one of those. We are planning on planting more strawberries and have planted blue berries but they did not do well so we may go for some raspberries which seemed to do well in the one farm we rented. I love growing my own berries.
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