Recommiting myself to have our small farm support itself, I looked at the planting calendar.
What I discovered is that its just short of 15 weeks till the 4 year anniversary of our move to the country!
This got me thinking…
A fellow homesteader I know had given himself the challenge of growing and raising 100% of his food in just 100 days!
That’s a lofty goal for sure!
Could we do that?
I think so!
We have until July 27th… that gives us 102 days…
Its will be a lot of work!
Already I can see some challenges we are going to have to face…
Our plan is to use the whole northwest end of our property…
The first step will be to decide which veggies to grow…
No specialty veggies this year! Only what we know we will enjoy! And, only foods that are Whole30* compliant… You can find more on that reasoning here.
Next, we will have to figure out how to keep our flock out of the garden area.
The fencing that we used last year, was relocated to the back of the barn to replace broken fencing, and to enlarge their free range area.
We have other challenges to face as well…
With a late snow, and April showers, the original garden has flooded. The area has been too hard or too wet to plant any cool weather veggies.
With last night’s thunderstorm and today’s down pour, even the chickens had the good sense to stay indoors most of the day! Only when it stopped raining, did they come out to get some worms for a bedtime snack.
Even though I didn’t get out to the garden today, tomorrow is supposed to be sunny. Perhaps I will at least get outside to remove the debris from last nights storm…
~ Sheri
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