A few months have passed since I started my new sunny garden, and it is going well.  I knew that since it is a new garden that it would not produce like a well established garden plot.  However, we were able to get several months worth of lettuce, a good bit of yellow crooked neck squash, a few ears of delicious corn, loads of basil, and the tomatoes are beginning finally deciding to blush. The tomato plants  that I started from seed are by far the best looking plants and they will be a good second crop since they did get a late start.  I think I should always do some staggered seed starts ..read more

Over the last few years, I have often lamented how much hay the goats have wasted as they pick through the feeder for the very best bits.  Whatever hay hit the ground while they were eating was no longer considered food grade hay in their tiny minds.  What a waste of hay!  By the end of the winter, I would always end up with all three compost bins full to bursting with this wasted hay and this year was no exception, in fact this year I had all three bins full with mostly finished compost  plus another pile just as large of half done composted hay, and a barn full of bedding that needed to go s ..read more