Almost The Dog Days
This is the time of year as farmers that we start worrying about the summer being over. I commented recently that summer is a season enjoyed by everyone except farmers. In the summer, farmers work from dawn to dusk in the fields or with livestock. Then, after dark do more work catching up on paperwork, bills, email, etc....
There's no time to eat. Which is ironic, because summer is the best time to eat right? Well, there's no time. If one is lucky, laundry gets done and the dirt that found its way into the house on shoes, dogs, cats and what not, gets swept up. But that's it. The house is pretty much abandoned in the summer.
August is also the time when a farmer wonders if the rain will ever come, or depending on the year, if the rain will ever stop. We also wonder if the giant zuchinni will ever stop coming. We wonder why the tomatoes haven't arrived, then a week later wonder what we will do with all the tomatoes, and think about how we will ever have time to can them.
On our farm right now we have about 1200 chickens, 75 turkeys and a passel of sheep and lambs. This is prime time for us. We're raising more birds than ever before, more sheep, more potatoes, more everything and we're tired.
We also had this little idea to open a local food's grocery store. Bushel & Peck's has been open a whole month now. Its cool. Its got a cafe. Its been a great project to start.
So right now on the farm we're up to our eyeballs, maybe further??? But its cool - its fun....
