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What a great year for crops and ...
Special thanks to all our senior farmshare members. You guys have been great to meet
and get to know. Thanks for all your suggestions for future crops for the coming years.
And thanks also for the feedback regarding the lemon cukes and Korean melons.
NEW STUFF TO LOOK OUT FOR THIS YEAR!
We are STILL putting up a new high tunnel this year. It will be thirty feet wide and
ninety six feet long. We hope to prolong our growing season and to get a good jump
start on next year as well. We already have two greenhouses - though we don't heat
them - and are really excited to add more capacity to supply some of the best produce
in the area!
We've added another new pig to our family. This one, however, isn't a little piglet. We
have acquired a new boar. He is a handsome young man - all Duroc. He is about a year
and a half old, approximately 6 1/2 feet long, 40 inches tall at the shoulder and he
weighs about 750 lbs. Kathy has named him "Hulk Hog-un". So he still has some
growing to do, but it will come in time. He had not been exposed to electric fence before,
but he learned quickly what it feels like to touch the live wire. He backed into it right off.
We hope he will still be able to produce offspring for us!!!
Last year, with the help of Kathy's brother and his family we were able to fence in about
thirteen more acres for the sheep and goats to go crazy! They love their new digs.
We've added more sheep and goats to our herds, bringing our totals to about 30
animals of each variety.
This year we plan to finish the southern field and get that fenced in as well. This
enclosure will add roughly 6 more acres to our lower field and will be home for all the
cows and horses. We've added four more little beefers to the herd this winter and hope
to get our girls bred up in the near future so we can start getting some cows milk in
addition to our goat's milk and ewe milk.
We've got ducks and geese laying all over the yard! We are going to have lots and lots
of new little ones in the next couple months. We've been trying to collect the eggs so
you can enjoy them now, but the little buggers keep hiding them pretty well. I think they
leave a couple out in plain sight each morning so I don't look too closely for their real
stash. These water fowl are certainly clever.
Special thanks to all our senior farmshare members. You guys have been great to meet
and get to know. Thanks for all your suggestions for future crops for the coming years.
And thanks also for the feedback regarding the lemon cukes and Korean melons.
NEW STUFF TO LOOK OUT FOR THIS YEAR!
We are STILL putting up a new high tunnel this year. It will be thirty feet wide and
ninety six feet long. We hope to prolong our growing season and to get a good jump
start on next year as well. We already have two greenhouses - though we don't heat
them - and are really excited to add more capacity to supply some of the best produce
in the area!
We've added another new pig to our family. This one, however, isn't a little piglet. We
have acquired a new boar. He is a handsome young man - all Duroc. He is about a year
and a half old, approximately 6 1/2 feet long, 40 inches tall at the shoulder and he
weighs about 750 lbs. Kathy has named him "Hulk Hog-un". So he still has some
growing to do, but it will come in time. He had not been exposed to electric fence before,
but he learned quickly what it feels like to touch the live wire. He backed into it right off.
We hope he will still be able to produce offspring for us!!!
Last year, with the help of Kathy's brother and his family we were able to fence in about
thirteen more acres for the sheep and goats to go crazy! They love their new digs.
We've added more sheep and goats to our herds, bringing our totals to about 30
animals of each variety.
This year we plan to finish the southern field and get that fenced in as well. This
enclosure will add roughly 6 more acres to our lower field and will be home for all the
cows and horses. We've added four more little beefers to the herd this winter and hope
to get our girls bred up in the near future so we can start getting some cows milk in
addition to our goat's milk and ewe milk.
We've got ducks and geese laying all over the yard! We are going to have lots and lots
of new little ones in the next couple months. We've been trying to collect the eggs so
you can enjoy them now, but the little buggers keep hiding them pretty well. I think they
leave a couple out in plain sight each morning so I don't look too closely for their real
stash. These water fowl are certainly clever.
Welcome to Valley View Farm!!!
