I’m used to committing half my day to my farm for the purpose of my ILC, but now the growing season is slowing down, and most of my focus is shifting to putting things to bed and cleaning up to prepare for next year. I’ve put together the binder for 2024 garden season, as well as the excel sheets for it.

The last two weeks have been seed inventory and ordering, organizing and labeling seed boxes, setting up the maps, clearing out some of the gardens, as well as butchering meat birds. We have a ton of work to do still, but it’s on the way! I plan to let the sheep onto the big garden to clear it before it is ready for the winter stuff. I have a ton of garlic to plant, as well as saffron crocus my mom bought but didn’t have space for.

We’ve had a lot going on at home, so very little time to do much of anything, let along thinking about what to post…

Our stall cleaner (he cleans 25 stalls twice daily, cleans and fills their waters every day, and switches turnout three times a day) has been out for a few days with an injury, so I’ve been working 10+ hour days, and I don’t see it coming to an end anytime soon.

This next weeks goal is to get the gardens totally cleared and garlic planted. Keeping my week realistic with what I have going on at work….

Boring post for the first two weeks, but there will be more after this weekend!!