A Clean House anda Clean Hut

The tidying and painting inside continues as does the outside winter chore of cleaning the huts and runs (which is usually done in summer by moving them to fresh grass)! 

The winter farm conference season starts up with lots of webinars and videos. It will give me a lot to ponder as I work on my crop planning this month.

And the sun is shining for awhile which is a good excuse to get outside and soak up some rays, even if it means just wandering the field and forests! I do have outside projects to work on but sometimes you don't wanna stand on cold concrete, holding cold metal tools, especially when your feet wanna move!

This week there is the usual microgreens, eggs, and wreaths. The new addition to the website that I am working on is a virtual yard sale of sorts (it is much easier for me to do one in winter than in summer). As I've been tidying the cabin, I re-discover lots of goodies (mainly various mugs, home baking equipment, and some fancy glassware) that I don't need anymore and should find homes that can appreciate them. Look for them next week! 

The sunshine makes a nice workspace to get a bit done on the high tunnel! Extra framing should help it withstand the regular 30mph winds and also help me sleep easy while those winds whip through the valley!

The colorful, rainbow lights can go up! I would keep them up all year long, like the clear lights are, but in summer the hummingbirds think they are pretty flowers and Hella kitty gets much too close to them for my liking!

The ducks get a clean huts filled with warm, dry straw and the compost pile gets a cartload full of duck manure and wet frozen straw! Win-Win!!!

Whenever I clean their hut, the ducks gather around the water cooler to share gossip and complain about their landlord.

​The upstairs office/studio got a couple coats of paint on the ceiling, walls, and floor! It was rough wood with lots of pen marks and notes to peoples past and unfinished drywall with holes, scratches, and water stains. Now its is fresh, clean, and bright! A perfect spot to tackle all the sewing, crocheting, seed saving, wreath making, crop planning, website updating, weaving, writing, labeling, and, sooner rather than later, tax prepping that fills my winter hours.

Sunshine also means the hens get a chance to roam and they take the opportunity to find the last yummy morsels!

Whenever I come over to a group of hens, they all stop and stare. I think they are plotting something! or expecting a treat...

Some time spent wandering the woods around my field yielded this wonderful tiny stream bounded by thick clumps of Alders and a bank of Mosses with a Deer trail making use of a gap in the thickets.

Hella, like most kitties, has her own way of telling me to get off the computer, no matter how important the work is, and to instead play with her, feed her, or put more wood on the fire because her butt is cold and the computer is a good place to warm it up!

What's available this week?

• Eggs!
  • dozen pasture-raised rainbow eggs
  • half dozen pasture-raised duck eggs 
• Flowers!
  • Dried Statice Bunches
  • Everlasting Wreaths
  • Potpourri Bundles
  • Flower Crowns
• Veggies!
  • Microgreens
    • Spicy Mix: Radish & Arugula
      • Large 4oz
      • Small 1oz
    • Mild Mix: Broccoli, Mizuna, Ch. Cabbage, Kale
      • Large 4oz
      • Small 1oz
• Crafts!
  • Treasure Bowls
  • Dragon Clips
• Botanicals!
  • Dragon's Balm
    • 0.25 oz
    • 1 oz

Where to find it all?

I'll be at Libby this Friday from 12-1230pm!

I'll be at Troy this Friday from 1-130pm!