Independence Days Update: Greening
Sharon March 20th, 2012
I’ve already written a bunch of rhapsodic posts about spring on the other blog, simply because spring does that to me. Get some peepers calling and warm sunshine on me and can’t help getting all Keatsean on you folks 
. So I’ll try and restrain myself now and just say - hey, it is SPRING!!!!! Yeah it is a month early and a little scary, but hey, SPRING!!!!
Busy time right now - getting the barns cleaned from winter is taking up a lot of time - we’ve had a fair bit of rain and had to wait for some of the mud to dry up to haul barn cleaning stuff where we need it. The good news is that a lot of compost is a very happy thing.
The weekend was spent celebrating Eli’s twelfth birthday - it was glorious and he really had a great time, mostly due to the warm weather - warm enough that the kids could swarm all over the creek. All that time out in the sunshine watching kids play (including my visiting niece) may not have been productive, but boy was it nice.
Lots of seed starting going on right now, taking advantage of the warm weather to get things out to a good start - but I took the covers completely off my low hoops, figuring that I was much more likely to fry things than to get any advantage at night for this week. Next week we go back to cooler weather.
Eleven baby bunnies this week, the first setting of chicks should hatch soon and all in all, new life coming apace. Mina is due in mid-April, the rest of the does begin kidding in early May.
Plant something: Tomatoes, Huckleberries, Tomatillos, Ground Cherries, Marigolds, Calendula, Malva, Chamomile, Bok Choy, Cilantro, Dill, Cabbage, Kohlrabi, Celeriac, Root Parsley, Parsley, Sage, Geranium Cuttings, Lots of Lettuce, Basils, Mizuna, Arugula, Spinach, Peas, Fava Beans.
Harvest Something: Milk, Eggs, Lemon Verbena and Geranium cuttings, parsnips.
Preserve Something: Not a thing
Waste Not: Worked on cleaning out the garage, accepted six bags of summery girl’s clothes for the foster kid stash, kept most of it, passed some of it on.
Want Not: Ordered bread flour, oatmeal, pasta and beans in bulk. Sold beef to my neighbors.
Eat the Food: Lots of salads of early greens and anything involving eggs - we are now egged for the forseeable future. Time to start selling them again on a larger scale!
Build Community Food Systems: Volunteered on a new community garden project.
Skill Up: Working on a braided rag rug that won’t look stupid.
How about you?
Sharon