Category: The Farm
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Mushrooms
The first step in growing mushrooms is to decide what type of mushroom you want to grow. We started with Oyster mushrooms and then expanded. Each type of mushroom grows best in a specific type or species of tree. You don’t have to go cut down your trees, but you do have to locate logs…
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Deer and Wildlife
As long as we can keep the deer away from our vegetables and fruit, we love the deer. We do have a spray which keeps the deer from eating our plants (most of the time) and we have cameras to catch pictures of the wildlife. These are pictures taken this week.
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Birds of the Farm
We have definitely had some ups and downs with the birds of the farm. The Guinea fowl experiment was a complete failure- NOT ONCE, but Twice. We raised 24 birds, moved them to the Guinea House- they escaped and were never seen again. We reordered, raised 24 birds to much bigger birds and allowed them…
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Blueberries 3/24/23
Most of our blueberries were fooled by the early spring. They bloomed and set fruit. Unfortunately, the freeze affected them. Here are pictures of some of our plants today. Hopefully, they will bloom and set fruit again as the weather warms up. This if the pear tree we planted last year. It has five different…
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Flowers at the Farm
Today we put in our first two beds of flowers. Below are pictures of the flowers at the farm last year. We will name the flowers and planting instructions and care as we plant this year. Zinnias are our new all time favorite. They grow in bad or good soil. When the leaves turn brown,…
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Meet our Goat herd
Prior to the arrival of the triplets on March 8,th, the farm had 7 female Pygmy Goats and one male. Skippy is on the left. She is very shy, but will definitely eat from your hand. Coke Case, our male, is on the far left. Our smallest Pygmy’s are Einstein and Tsunami. Both will most…