We had so much fun this Thanksgiving season; we had cousins out to visit and share the feast. The littlest of our extended family had a ball collecting eggs right from the nesting boxes and feeding all the chickens. They each had to take home their own dozen they collected and made sure to have some green and blue eggs!
Thanksgiving has come and gone and the hens are happy that they are chickens - not turkeys! Looks like it's time for turkey salad, soup and then some.
By this time next week, we'll have the hen house decorated for Christmas and the girls will be lit up nightly! Though the days are shorter and it seems darker all too early these days, the girls are producing better than average. The Araucanas are back laying - so I'm happy collecting the prize blue and green eggs along with all the shades of browns. It's always a surprise to reach inside those nests and find those precious eggs.
From the Garden: I'm returning to raised bed gardening. Between the drought, Br'er Rabbit's colony of family and friends, the deer - you name it, if this summer had been back in the 1800's - we'd have starved! I'm taking over the front fenced chicken yard and have claimed it for the heirloom garden. I've already moved and rebuilt the compost bins; they are well underway and readily adjacent to the garden now. I'm planning for 50-60 4X4 raised beds. We'll still have the larger plots for corn, pumpkins and watermelon on the upper 26 acres, but returing to the square foot gardening method will yield greater results and more prolific vegies.
The seed catalogs have already started to arrive and my mouth is watering for the gorgeous varieties of tomatoes - well, just everything! Much to plan for.
Much to be thankful for.
Travel mercies to everyone during this extended holiday and upcoming Christmas season.
The Jacobs Family
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