Well it's finally Friday and I am off Saturday for a change. Didn't get much done today but we have a busy day tomorrow. We are moving the chickens to a new section of pasture in the morning, they have been in the garden for the past few weeks clearing out everything that was left and laying down plenty of fertilizer for next year. That's the neat thing about raising chickens on pasture, you get free labor, the chickens spread their own manure, they remove all the bugs, and they even till it up a little when they scratch around. This next move will be one of the last times we move them until spring, since our grass will go dormant this fall.
We are going to build a PVC hoop house and cover it in plastic and place hay bedding to a depth of about three inches. I got this idea from Joel salatin's book "you can farm" he houses his layers in hoop houses in the winter and at the beginning of spring plants corn or other plants in the fertilizer Rich bedding. So that's what we want to do house them in there until early march and plant some vegetables in there.
Tonight I'm on my way to a local auction with michelle and my mom, who by the way has become an auction junkie. Sometimes they have some good stuff and sometimes it's a bust. We have lucked out and got some farming items, but we will see what the have tonight. I'm hoping to find a good deal on tarps, but we will see. Thanks for reading our blog
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