Signs of Spring

Blueberry Buds

Sunshine

Ducks in the pond.

Blue Skies

I have been thinking about where to take progress photos from and I've tossed around a few ideas in my head. I think I have come to a conclusion. I will take a photo standing to the left of each our our pear trees. The top photo is of the right hand tree (when the house is to my back) and the bottom is the left hand pear tree. Eventually I think the blueberry bushes and the pears will block our view, but maybe that's not so bad. 

Last month I posted a list of what we need to do this month. I wish we could say that we have it all done, but we don't. The only thing we have done is to move the brood box is out of the snow. It is in the barn drying off. The next step is to clean it out and disinfect it. The chicks are coming the end of this month!

Purple Cow

 We have recently discovered smoothies. The daycare kiddos won't eat frozen blueberries, so one day on a whim my Mom made a smoothie. They devoured it and asked for more! This is now a snack time staple and is on our menu every week. You can substitute all the ingredients for other types. Greek yogurt or regular yogurt instead of Swiss style or maybe use different berries. Along as you keep the amounts the same it ought to be a hit for your next snack time!

Purple Cow

Ingredients:

2 Cups Swiss-style yogurt

2 Cup 1% Milk

1.5 Cups Frozen Wild Maine Blueberries 

1.5 Cups Fresh strawberries (chopped)

Blend with an immersion blender or other blender. Makes approx 6 6oz servings

Saturday Farm Journal :: Green Tomato Relish

The batteries in the camera died right before I could show you the two gallons of relish I made Friday night. All the green tomatoes are from our garden. The peppers in the photo are from our garden, but the onion is from the store. I ended up purchasing onions and peppers from the store, but maybe the last batch of relish will have some from our garden. The story is the same with the garden, many weeds, few things to report. We are fairly certain we are not going to get the 5lbs of seed potatoes back in produce. We are hoping to break even. The good news is that the ducks are now taking care of the potato bugs for us, check out  this post for the all the waddling fun!

The tomatoes are doing awesome, regardless of their floppy, bushy state. Jason did manage to stake a few. He tossed some branches into the horses paddock, which is beside the garden, believing that the horse didn't like tomatoes. Wrong! The next day the horse helped himself to some plants and ruined some tomatoes! Gah! Luckily, there are tons of tomatoes so the horse can have a few.

Mom did manage to weed one row of potatoes in the last week. We have picked green beans twice, but haven't been able to put any up for winter because we're eating them. We have stored up four gallons of blueberries in the freezer. My sister in law picked about a gallon of blueberries yesterday and we have probably have eaten a gallon. That's six gallons of blueberries from three bushes! God is good! 

Last weeks list:

• weed: cabbage and tomatoes
• stake tomatoes
• pick tomatoes
• make relish
• pick blueberries

This weeks list:

• pick blueberries
• pick green beans
• weed something
• stake tomatoes