Q2 Week 5 Dec 9-13

We are heading into the dead of winter with December 21 being the shortest day of sunlight of the year. That will be happening next week.  The students are currently maintaining vegetables that were planted last spring and some winter crops that were begun in October.

We planted onion, carrots, a variety of lettuces, peas, celery, chive, and different mints. We are maintaining some corn, tomatoes, a variety of hot peppers and some bell peppers.

Our challenge is that many of the chickens are capable of flying over the five-foot fence we have around the garden and love to nibble on the plants.  Most hit are the strawberry plants.

The students continue to maintain and monitor the four compost piles we have. The largest compost pile has been at or above 124 degrees for the past month.

Q2 Week 4 Dec 2-6 Hawk Attack

We had rain on Wednesday, Dec 4th and Friday - Sunday, Dec 6- 8th

On Thursday we had a hawk attack, The hawk killed one of our October chicks that was outside the coop during the day.  It was after football, and I was going to lock up the goats when I saw a hawk on top of one of our chickens. I  shewed the hawk away but the six-week-old chicken was dead.

We are Back!

With the Thanksgiving holiday now behind us we will be concentrating on getting the farm prepared for the winter season. The winter season is the time of the year with the least amount of growth due to the angle of the sun in the southern hemisphere at this time of year.

We are reunited with rain again on Wednesday!
In class we watched the movie The Biggest Little Farm.  Here is a link to an intro of the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evRZx-YSBSc