1 year ago (June 2005) we moved to this farm. Actually we fell into it – but it was a good fall and a big one. Honestly we didn’t really know what we wanted to DO with it – we bought it because of privacy and space. 32 acres is a lot of space for this area!
Some basic thoughts were a few chickens, a garden, and who knew whatelse. Now, 200 chickens later, 20 turkeys, 16 sheep, 2 llamas, and steers & hogs during certain seasons is a lot! It’s amazing and difficult because we have thoughts on how we want to raise everything and grow stuff. It doesn’t help that locally there aren’t that many farms doing the same thing at the same level. Older farmers let us know that we need to kill the field and start over which would work for them – but the thought of the chemicals is scary enough as it is.
Our entire thought process is working around all the chemicals and trying to be as organically friendly as possible – though it doesn’t always work as well as we would like it to. We grass-feed all the animals, free ranging the chickens – however they still consume feed at the rate of 50lbs a day so they cost – luckily they lay eggs which sell really well.
This ramble is probably because some days it’s overwhelming – which I figure blogging may help 
Some days it feels like it is too much to do, the work is never done. Though Joe doesn’t always think I appreciate it he does a ton of work that we are lucky he can actually do instead of paying a fortune for someone else to do it.
Til next time when I look ahead and ramble!
