When we first embarked on this endeavor two years ago, we decided that we preferred to grow food, not lawn. Our plan all along has been to uproot our spacious lawn, and replace it with food for the humans and the bees. For the last two days, Roger has been tilling up two very large garden plots that will be fertilized with rabbit droppings and planted with lots of great food for us and beautiful flowers for the bees.
I've got an entire garden bed dedicated to sunflowers for the beauty, and the ability to feed the whole plant to the rabbits. They basically provide me with free seeds for replanting each year, so it's a true win-win.
Our greenhouse is completely packed with seedlings ready to find homes in the ground... carrots, kale, lettuce, broccoli, spinach, tomatoes, peppers, and a half dozen different kinds of herbs! I'm excited for the garden this year as everything is going in the ground on time, and we'll take advantage of the full growing season this year. Last year, we didn't really get started growing until the end of May and didn't have great luck with some of the stuff.
In other news, we had two brand new litters of rabbits this morning, at least 20 babies. I've got one more doe ready to breed in a couple of weeks and then we'll do one more round of all three girls before summer hits us too hard. We should have our last litter of babies mid July, then nothing more until November. Its just too hot for bunnies to be having babies in the summer around here!
We also welcomed two sheep to the farm... never in a million years did I see myself as a sheep farmer, but here we are... lol They're fiber sheep, and cute as they can be! Pappy (the black) and Patches.
So that's about all for updates right now. Hopefully, we'll post more soon!
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