The baby chicks are chirping away in their new home!  We ended up getting 6 golden comets, 4 black australorps, 2 black sex-linked, and 2 Easter Eggers!  After we spent all that time setting up the brooder, I was reminded by the nice woman at Agway that I should not put shavings in the brooder until the chickens are a few weeks old.  There is a danger that the chicks could breathe in the shavings and it could kill them.  YIKES!  I picked through the recycling and found some newspapers, so I think we are in good shape.

The kittens and momma Zayne are just adorable.  Hot Wheels is sleeping on my chest right now after having a crazy play session in the boys' tunnel.  I think all three kittens have a forever home waiting for them and I know that Zayne will follow suite!

We took the hay off of two of the raised beds and placed a thick sheet of plastic over the beds to speed up the defrosting!  The beds are now ready for spring peas!!!  We will be planting them tomorrow.  I enjoyed another fresh spinach salad from the hoop house for dinner tonight!

Starting to Blog!

I have been wanting to start a Blog for a few years now.  I want to share all of the things that we are trying at Solstice Farm, and connect with others who share the same interests and lifestyle.

Currently, we have six free-range chickens and tomorrow our flock will grow to 20!  Today, my husband, my two pre-schoolers, and I set up a 4 by 4 foot box in the basement to get ready for our new arrivals.

We are fostering a momma cat named Zayne and her three kittens: Thunder, Lightning, and Hot Wheels! Right now they are running all over the house like crazy little kittens do! We also have a wild barn cat who keeps the mice population under control and also drives my husband crazy when she poops in all of the newly planted garden beds.

Our hoop house is 12ft by 40ft and we ate a spinach salad out of it tonight!  The spinach was planted the day after Thanksgiving and is packed with organic goodness!  We have 34- 4ft by 8ft raised beds and we are hoping to plant peas this weekend.

The buckets are hanging from the maple trees and we will be sugaring this weekend for the third weekend in a row.  Our fridge is full of the natural sweetener that we love to pour on homemade pancakes!

We work hard to eat whole foods and buy organic when we can.  Life is good.