Growing real food in beautiful Graham, WA
2018 Recap and Plans for 2019 Hello friends! First, thank you for your support during 2018 and helping it be a success. We wanted to provide a quick recap of 2018 and give you an idea of what we have planned for 2019. Yes, this is a long overdue post – with how busy we…
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Heritage Livestock Conference Update I travelled to Fishers, IN to attend the 2018 Heritage Livestock Conference organized by The Livestock Conservancy. It has been a great learning experience so far and the actual conference hasn’t even started! Today I attended a conference workshop – “oxen basics” and it was a chance to learn a bit…
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Summer Update and Check-In Whew! We’ve been way too busy to find time to keep up with the blog and website. For that we’re sorry. It’s hard to believe that Summer is almost over – and still so much to do! I wanted to take a minute to catch you up with what we’ve been…
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Got Eggs? The hens are laying beautiful eggs reliably now and just in time for the start of our 25 week egg subscription. There are still a number of subscriptions available for folks in the greater Tacoma-Seattle area. If you want to taste great eggs, give ours a try! What will you get? Each week,…
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Hatching, Planning, Waiting… Successful Hatch! We successfully hatched out the fertile eggs we purchased as part of our breeding plan and laying hen replacement. The 30 eggs we ordered (and one extra for free) arrived via USPS damaged leaving only 28 for the incubator. Of those, 26 developed and from the 26, we hatched out…
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We’ve been busy as we change seasons – ended with a decent amount of veggies even though we didn’t get the garden planted until late. Definitely learned some lessons to apply to next year, especially as it relates to insect and weed pressure. The rototiller runs again (huzzah!) and it’s been used to get the…
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Finally we have had some good weather which has let us get caught up on our long list of chores. We have added a bunch more chickens, now up to 50 or so, have added another rooster so we can start breeding our own replacement hens, and our turkeys have graduated to pasture. The garden…
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We had plans to already be planted out and close to harvesting spring greens by May 1. But alas, it continues to rain (and rain and rain). So much so that we have adapted and are focused this year on getting the raised beds built up, manage weed pressure, and build soil structure. I am…
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