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Today we welcomed 25 turkeys to the farm. They’ll spend the next four months with us in their deluxe accommodations where they’ll have access to the great outdoors and the pristine views of our pasture. They’ll eat gourmet meals consisting of bugs and insects as well as premium non-GMO feed.
If you are interested in any of these turkeys, they’ll be looking for new homes just before Thanksgiving.
Over the last few days, the girls have been learning about plants, vegetables, and what the different parts of them are. They wrote out a little story, drew some pictures, and today we concluded with going into the aquaponics garden and harvesting the potatoes.
Continue reading “Potatoes: a homeschooling lesson”Well, it may not be raining but there’s water flying through the air (courtesy of a sprinkler). The pouring is done as well. Thank God.
Continue reading “It’s raining, it’s pouring”
Our ten Peking Ducks are doing well. Their feathers have come in, they’ve turned from yellow to white, and they’ve become creatures of habit.
They’re excited to get fresh water in their kiddie pools each morning and have become super vocal if you don’t let them out of their coop early enough. We call it “Angry Daddy Duck Voice”… They certainly have a very specific quack that lets you know when they’re not happy about something.
The Peking ducks are growing quickly. A lot quicker than I expected, actually. Overall they seem similar to raising chickens at this point. They’re still scared of everything and they all huddle up together.
The aquaponics system is working well and the garden is in full swing. The bell peppers have put on fruit, the potatoes are putting out a ton of greens, and the tomatoes are giving us handfuls of tomatoes each day.
A while back I was talking to my stepmom about the animals on the farm. She asked “what’s next?” and I talked about wanting to do a run of Peking Ducks at some point.
The tomato plants are doing great in the aquaponic dutch buckets. They’re putting on fruit and before long, we’ll have fresh tomatoes! I’ve been hard pruning them so that they stay in an aggressive fruiting mode.
It was bound to happen… We added onto the aquaponics system. Quite considerably.
Continue reading “The system got larger.”