Yesterday was a beautiful spring day. Normally on Sunday we take the day off just doing the basic chores. However the sun was coming up, the roosters were crowing (more on those later)and we had to make the proverbial hay when the sun shone . We started out with laundry to be hung out, then fixed the potato garden fence, tore down another fence and an old chicken coop, butchered out some roosters, cleaned out all the deep litter from the chicken coop, pressure washed the nest boxes and the horse trailer, turned a manure pile, fertilized a field, washed a couple hundred eggs, hardened off plants, gathered up some rogue, joy riding sheepies, put all clean bedding to get ready for new chicks, and started tomato, pepper and basil seedlings.
Whew.
It feels good to move and push our bodies again after a long winter. I always become misty eyed when the manure pile gets turned.
Yea, it smells enough to make your eyes water. But that steam rolling off there is the key to black gold, my friend !!
Anywho, this month there are over 2000 farmers (37 percent of whom are women) all across this fair province getting up at the crack of dawn and putting Tiger Balm on their backs. The average age of a farmer is 58.4 years (It’s the .4 that gets you I find)
Almost all farmers are gearing up to grow food, raise livestock and crops to feed people , usually while working another off farm job.
We love you, dear customer, and we love farming. We want you to have good food and for us all to enjoy good lives. That’s why we charge what we do because everyone deserves a living wage.
Also because life without food would really su…well, it would be the opposite of life.
So please buy directly from us when you can, don’t waste any of our food and please, please don’t compare our prices to those at the grocery store (especially in front of us-It is not the same playing field at all, I promise.)
Today it rained. We enjoyed indoor chores, paperwork and chicken noodle soup.
Cheers to another growing season !
Love Jenn xx