The hens are laying well, now that they have settled in. We are getting 3-4 eggs a day from 4 hens, so while we need more hens so the kids can have some eggs to sell, at the very least, we can stop buying eggs for ourselves. Last night we needed to put up a chicken wire fence around the market garden. It is the chickens that have been eating the leaves off the newly sprouted bean plants, not bugs like we thought.
The cabbage is taking a hit from little beetles, though. A friend sent me a recipe yesterday to take care of the little pests naturally, and I am going to give it a try tonight, after I am sure that the rain has passed. Weeding is a chore that never seems to end. We have about half weeded by hand now, with a lot of catching up to do, but we felt we couldn't weed much around the rows until we could truly tell what was a seedling, and what was a weed.
And as for hopes, it seems our landlord stopped by on Sunday while we were out, and took a look at the chickens and the market garden, and the feed back yesterday to Shawn was that they thought it looked great, so maybe they are giving weight to our request to use the pasture around the house and barn for a few heifers and pigs. Fingers crossed!!
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