The Non-Store Farm Projects

Somehow it has been a few weeks since our last blog post. Our last post was on our summer plans for the Store, so I thought it would be fitting to follow that up with a post on our summer plans and projects for the rest of the farm besides the Store.

Now, I must start this off by saying that we have a lot of things we would love to do on the farm (and we fully intend to give them our attention when the store is complete. This is a list that includes things like getting pigs and setting up a greenhouse. This is absolutely not that list.

This list is one that we hope to accomplish this year. It is a list of tasks that we feel we have no other choice but to give our time to despite the fact that we would love to be pouring everything in to the store right now. Without further ado…

1) Build a blueberry house. This year is looking great for the blueberry bushes, and we want to make sure that the birds don’t enjoy the harvest instead of us (and you!). This project involves putting some posts in the ground along with enough structure attached to those posts to allow us to staple netting up. We started this project this week, and I am hoping that it is completed by the end of the long weekend.

2) The garden. It is planting season right now, and we are very excited to add more and more of our own produce to our Weekly Produce Program. The garden is a large and constant job, and we will spend more time on it than on the rest of the things on this list, so even though it isn’t exactly a new project, I felt justified in listing it.

3) Build a new chicken house. We have been expanding our chicken operations steadily for the last couple of years, and thanks to our faithful customers , we are in need of more coop space so that we can keep expanding. We are planning it as a large hen house with space along the back to put rabbits, as that venture has experienced steady growth as well.

4) Fence in our pasture. To go with the new chicken house, we need to finish digging holes and putting up fence posts to create a pasture area that takes up a large portion of our backyard. We are talking dozens of fence posts. I am literally starting to refer to myself as the mole because of the quantity of holes that I have been (and will continue to be) digging. The goats and the chickens will co-exist in this pasture, and the foxes will exist outside of the pasture.

5) Other. I put other here because it seems like we can’t go two or three weeks without coming across another project that is way more pressing than we realized. I’m sure you all can relate!

This list, along with our farm store exterior project list, holds the goals of the next few months. I’d like to think that we can accomplish them all, and we are planning on working like packhorses to make it happen, but I will be realistic and be content to finish one project at a time.