Expansion

It's happened!!  My hubby is finally on board with the whole urban farm idea. Last week he gave up on the silly idea of grass and let me have the entire flat area of the yard for my farm. We spent the weekend adding to it. Still alot to go but it is feeling real.

I started this spring with about 300 sq. ft of space. We put in several 4 x 8 raised beds and a potato tower. As my enthusiam increased so did my quest for space. Here's some pictures of the early days.

This was just after I planted on May 23rd.

Those were taken on June 10. I have my Roma Tomato plants in the red buckets and the last picture is of my potato tower.

Here's the most recent pictures from 7/6/11

More and better pictures soon.

Completely 'Eggcited'!!!

Cheesy title I know but I couldn't resist. Yesterday my daughter texted me. She found our first egg laid by our chicks!  We have 2 girls that are just hitting the laying age of which I've learned is typically around 20 weeks old. Well Buffy and Tinkerbelle were 1 day shy of 20 weeks.  I'm assuming this is Tinkerbelle's egg because it's green which is typical of the Easter Eggers. I believe Buffy will lay brown ones but that still remains to be seen.

It's pretty little as they usually are in the beginning. I can't wait to get home and see if she's laid another or if perhaps Buffy is following suit.

Farm may be pushing it

Ok, so it may not truly qualify as a farm. Yet.  It's a 1/2 acre lot in the middle of town. It's more like my attempt to create a version of my dream with the current living situation I have.  Urban homestead, hobby farm, garden, miniature zoo. Whatever you want to call it, its my dream or as close to it as I can possibly do right now.

We're transforming a big part of our back yard into garden. We have bunnies, chickens, dogs and cats. The transformation is going slower than I'd hoped. The weather has not cooperated much at all this spring. Rain and snow have decided to show up on the weekends my husband has off from work.  I also know (ok, he keeps reminding me) not to bite off more than I can chew either.

I want to grow as much of our own food as possible, preserving what we don't eat so that we have homegrown food year round. The chickens are for eggs, not meat. We have about another month or so until they'll begin to lay.

So maybe it is a farm or maybe it isn't. Maybe if you tilt your head to the side and squint your eyes, its a farm.