It seems like the weather has moved directly from late April to July, and now we're back to late May again. And while this proves to be a bit much for our human bodies to adjust to, the plants and animals here on the farm seem to actually thrive in it. It was just about 2 weeks ago that our strawberry plants looked like this.
Since that picture we have collected several gallons of strawberries from our little 50 plant patch, and I have tried my hand at strawberry pie, strawberry ice cream, starwberry jam, and next on my list dried strawberries and strawberry fruit leather. Besides lots of eating fresh strawberries straight off the plant, before they even make it to the house. Yum!!!
And while we seem to have strawberries on the brain, and if you look at us we might seem a little red from all the fabulous anthocyanins we've eaten lately; strawberries aren't the only thing we're growing around here.
Requiring just as much daily attention as our strawberry patch are the noisy little birds found in various buildings around the property. On May 7 we upped our farmyard bird population from 6 chickens and 2 turkeys to now having 36 chickens and 6 turkeys! Granted most of that population isn't a month old yet. Though in 3 weeks they have went from being covered with down fluff to growing feathers, and being able to be outside part of the day now. The 30 baby chicks are living in the old turkey shed. The day we put them out there, they looked like this:
Now they look like this:
For more on the animals and other happenings . . . check back tomorrow.
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