It is early spring, 2008, and the farm is showing earliest signs of life. In addition to what sounds like thousands of birds constantly chattering in the barns and high in the fir trees that surround our home, tender green shoots are starting to poke through the thawing soil all around.
And of course, one of the first signs of spring for us are the hundreds of seed trays we've filled and seeded. In our small greenhouses, already the young tomatoes and spinach and lettuce plants are popping up.
We recently picked up 10 baby chicks to add to our four grown chickens. Within the next six to nine months we should start being able to gather eggs from the new ones. Right now, the six-day-old chicks are still figuring out their environment (separate from their big sisters, of course!), waddling around, tumbling into each other, spreading their tiny wings.
The two horses, Duke and Little Bit, are anxiously pawing the mud in their corral, shedding their winter coats, and smelling the early spring air. The grass is greening. The cover is coming off the tractor.
Time to start growing again.
- By Deb
Sunday, March 16, 2008
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