Easy Pickin's & New Chickens

Cucumbers have come in full force, and zucchinis also. It's funny to think that I am becoming bored and tired of picking cucumbers every night. Will definitely need to make more pickles this weekend, and considering a freezer recipe for lasagna with zucchini. Peaches should be ready next week, and blackberries from The blackberry bushes that I planted back in the spring of 2010. Lost a few of the chickens over vacation during fourth of July. Raccoons have been hard this year. Replaced them with 10 Bantam chicks that arrived yesterday morning.

Summer begins!

Today is the first day of summer, and we are excited to be having cucumbers almost ready to pick, zucchinis flowering and growing, blueberries ready to pack, basil, cilantro, and tomatoes growing as well. Today also marks the last day of vacation Bible school for Emma and Logan at Assumption. Looking forward to lots of great produce this summer. 

What a difference a year makes…

This time last year we were beginning to experience the drought. This year we have had an over abundance of rain and the garden and flowers are doing wonderful. Looking forward to peaches, cucumbers, zucchini, and lots of tomatoes soon.
Emma and Logan enjoy helping in the high tunnel and in the garden also.
All the native perennial flowers and grasses we used for landscaping in the front of the house came back wonderfully from last year.

Strawberry time!

Emma, Logan and I made strawberry jam from berries picked at our farm & at Lakeview Farms.

Around the farm after 4 inch rain the night before...

Took a little walk around the field. Down to the far south point we saw where Belleau creek jumped the bank last night. Wendy went with us. Silly girl. Kiddos had to help catch Easter chicks to put to bed when we were finished.

Emma's loft & reading nook...

Wheat, brush hogging & chickens!

 Jason mowing the ever growing grass from all the rain we have had.

First crop in high tunnel - broccoli

High Tunnel Farming

Hopefully the first of many exciting posts about the high tunnel. Jason and I (mostly Jason) finished the construction of the high tunnel on January 6, 2013. Looking forward to growing (and maybe even selling) some fantastic produce out of this building and getting a jump on the growing season.

Suprise on the farm...

Nature tells us babies are born in the spring, but Miss Harriet had other plans, we knew she was missing for a while and suspected that she had been sitting, but what a shock we had on a cold 19 degree morning January 5th... Jason saw them running around behind momma. Unfortunately we lost two before we found them due to the cold, but we have two little chicks, Emma is calling them Zebra & Sunlight until we know if they are hens or roo's.

First Christmas

First Christmas at Belleau Bend was fantastic, spent Christmas Eve relaxing at home with the kids and woke up to Santa in the morning. This was the calm before the storm...