Yesterday I finished weeding, raking and amending the east bed of the hoop house. I now have parsnips, carrots, radishes, beets, endive and two types of lettuce mixes (for fancy baby greens salads) sown in there. I can't tell you how much I miss having salad prepared from produce that was picked literally minutes before eating.
I had already got broccoli and brussels sprouts planted in the second , center, bed last week. There is another eighteen foot of it to prepare, and that is my goal for next week. The following week I want to get the last, west, bed done.
Ken helped me move the bin of pig feed from the old building to near the hoop house, so that I can feed the pigs without running the gauntlet of goats all trying to grab the bucket. Feeding the piggies was soooo much easier this morning.
Another thing I did yesterday was measure the pigs to get an approximation of their live weight. I came up with: Boss Hawg (barrow) = 228#; My Hammy (Hamp cross) = 193#; Ms Piggy (?Berk cross?) = 217#. Butchering day has been reset to the 25th October, so they may be a little more by then.
Ken is still working on the housing in the north triangle for future pigs, steers that are being grained out, and other animals that are being "beefed up" ready for the freezer. It will also hold my bucks during summer when I don't want them breeding the does... all in all a very useful area. I will have photos of that this weekend.
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