Update from the farm...

The bunnies have now been moved outside into their new swanky custom bunny condo which they really seem to enjoy. With it being up off the ground it is easier for us to clean feed and water them and most importantly interact with them. They usually come right up to the door when you open it and want to be petted...they are so cute.
As for the actual farm where we grow things? It is still under construction but...SOON!

Bunny love...

Say hello to Sprout and Nibblet, then newest members of the farm. They are twin brothers and are just over a year old. We adopted them from the Irvine Animal Shelter this past Saturday. As you can see they are big boys. They stand over 2 feet tall when on their hind legs. I am going to try and weight them tonight to see just how big they really are :D

The beds...

Many people have asked me what the raised beds in the garden will look like and I found these pictures on the Sunset website and they are pretty much exactly what mine will look like. I think the ones in the pics are 4'x8' and ours will be 3'x6' but pretty much built the same.

I will also be installing sections of PVC on each ends and side as seen in this photo to serve dual purposes...

...one reason for the PVC is to be able to install "hoops" for birdnetting or row covers when need be as seen in the photo below. The other purpose for the PVC is to hold the chicken tractor in place when moved from bed to bed.

Our chickens will not be housed in a traditional coop, they will be moved from bed to bed to work the soil, pick out weeds and bugs and fertilize the soil as well. I not only want to have good cared for chickens and the best tasting eggs but I want my chickens to work for me :)

wow 2 posts in one day...what is this world coming to?

While were were working in the farm portion of the backyard on Saturday we decided to let the boys forage around in there for a while. They took great joy in getting a mouthful of dirt and then going to the water bucket to wash it down. Here they are trying to see who could get their head all the way to the bottom of the bucket. Notice they are up on their toes... Weeds WERE plentiful on Saturday before we pulled them all so we let them eat whatever they wanted...

They are almost 8 months old now and I know I am biased but my boys are so very handsome!

My cousin comes through BIG time!!!!

Dragonfly Farms now has a gate! Woo hoo! Saturday work day was a success despite being down a person but with my cousin John coming over and building and installing our new gate we are in great shape. All the weeds have been cleared and now I am in the process of leveling the ground. Here is John putting in the last screw for the latch :)
MUCH MORE to come! :D

I have lost my way....

Nothing worse than a farmer that has lost his or her way, but I am slowly getting back on track. My focus had to change for a while in order to get an old roommate out and move a new one in but now that we have succeeded in that I want to be up and running in time for the fall planting season. This Saturday is a small scheduled work day on the farm to get all those nasty weeds out of the backyard, it will just be me, Nic, Aunt Shirley and Pa Fuller (who also has some crawling under the house jobs to do.) The plan is to get the weeds pulled and start leveling out the ground. The next step is to lay out the weed fabric, build the rasied beds and then place my order of pea gravel...12 thousand pounds of it to be exact! :D More to come after this weekend's work.

Do you have what it takes to be a duck wrangler?

I do! :D Oh man I love these guys, they crack me up everyday! Peeps could never be replaced, she was VERY special but these big boys come in a close second to her! They are fully grown now and are 4 and a half months old...Pierce is on the left and Harvey on the right.And if I am the Duck Wrangler then Nicole is the Goose Whisperer! There is a park not too far from the house that has lots of ducks and geese and we took some duck food (actual duck food, NOT BREAD!) to feed them and these Canada Geese loved Nic.

Expensive food dishes...

My sister Amy works for a company that makess various linens for the home and they had purchased some plates as research for a bedding line they were doing. When she asked one of her co-workers in NY what she should do with the plates when they were done with them the co-worker jokingly suggested that Amy give them to me for the ducks to eat off of. Well of course being the smart-asses we are, we had to setup these pics to send to her to show the ducks with their new expensive food dishes!!!! ...of course the boys were scared of the dishes so I had to kind of bait them to get close :D but did manage to get this shot...