Garden

We started early in February planting seeds in pots and making a greenhouse, and adding some grow lights. We hired a neighbor to rip the ground with his tractor. Don then used the rototiller to work the ground. We had already started a winter garden up the hill near the house where we had put some onions, shallots, and lettuce. We purchased some red potato sets, red and white onion, which we planted in February, in April we started planting some of our plants we had started. This picture was taken today we are still adding plants.
Our landowner Bill ripped and tilled with his garden tractor the pumpkin patch, we are growing the little decorator pumpkins, jack-o-lantern pumpkins, and the giant pumpkins, also some seeds Bill and his wife gave us they had gotten in Italy, with unusual pumpkins.
We are now starting to get little tomatoes on our plants, we planted some Heirloom tomatoes to try this year Brandywine. The cabbage are getting pretty good size, our squash is growing fast the crooked neck squash already have little squash's, the potatoes already have potatoes.
My aunt who lives in the midwest sent me a photo of it snowing the other day I wondered if anyone there had started planting and had lost plants. We watch the weather forcast daily as we do not want to lose all our hard work.

Chickens and their Coop

Our chickens were inherited from my brother he brought them for Grandma who lives with us.
Grandma has always had a garden and chickens, except for awhile she was living in a housing tract. Grandma has some Ameraucanas, a Plymouth rock and a Rhode Island Red.
When we got the opportunity to move to our little farm we wanted to be sure and have a garden and some chickens. We adopted a rooster and hen from some young folk who had them in the city and they needed a new home. Rooster is a great guy was easy to pick up till he grew into a adult now he jumps at you, but that's his job and he is doing a great one. They are Ameraucanas
and lay green/blue eggs.
Two weeks ago we bought some baby chicks and turkeys, the baby chicks are Road Island Reds, and Plymouth rock. The turkeys are bronze. Turkeys take about 24-28 weeks to get to be 18 lbs or more, if you don't want to eat them they will live up to 15 yrs.
We have used 10 lbs of chick starter in those 2 weeks, went to the feed store today and got 25 more lbs, while there we got 2 more baby turkeys and a baby Peking Duck.
Our chicken coop was made from recycled wood and tin. We use the free internet boards to obtain these materials, only thing we don't have a truck. One fellow gave us a huge shed to tear down we made several trips in the back of our old saturn. You would be surprised what you can haul in a little car. I think the only thing we had to buy is some post cement. The chickens love it and it keeps them warm and dry in the winter.
The chicken fencing came from the same place, and poultry netting. Now that we are getting more chickens we are thinking of enlarging the pen.