So today I can do a few things. The meat chickens were processed last week. It was sad to put them in cages but I know we could not have such good food without them. We pick them up today-wrapped and frozen real food. Most are sold already and I will send out some notes to other past customers to see if they want to order again. The other good thing here is that I am not carrying buckets of water twice a day and lifting 50lb bags of feed and bales of bedding. So that daily strain wont be present in my schedule. I start therapy and I will know a lot about what and how this will work.
In the garden the drought is back. We had our last good rains two weeks ago. The ground is dust again. So I am gathering and ending sections of the gardens. The seasons are moving on. It is hot now and soon the freezes will be here so I will be getting ready to have the gardens getting ready for winter and next year. It is that time. I bet there are a lot of one-armed gardeners and 'soft and flowing' gardeners.
Dad that is why next year we are going to work on the pastured meat chickens-no bedding to clean. Less feed to wrestle with and we (hope0 to have that 4 wheeler with a water/maple sap tank on the back for water. We will have to work on the design so non-he men like you and I can move them around. Salatin uses a dolly under one end. I think this is why multigenerational farming is the best way to go! We all have different strengths!
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