At the beginning of the year, Lyndsey and I sat down and created our vision board for this year’s upcoming busy season. We have been attacking that checklist so far with finishing our greenhouse, getting our garden plans ready, and starting on our outbuilding/barn. Last weekend we had some help out at the homestead to get most of our pole building put up. We are so fortunate to have people around us that can jump in and make quick work of things. One of my customers linked me up with a couple Amish workers that did most of the construction, I was the grunt running around getting them what they needed. The building structure only took about 4 hours to put up, and now we just have to put steel on it. We are excited to add this additional space to our homestead.
It will be an area that we can work, store tools/equipment and build off of for future use. We have plans to expand our livestock on the homestead in the future, and this will be a place that we can branch off of for more animal housing.
Chicken Update
Branching off of the building update, we can now open up the entire smaller shed we have currently for the entire chicken coop. This will allow us to easily expand our laying stock which we are doing today! Lyndsey is picking up another eight chickens for our flock, having this larger space for them is crucial. I will make sure to update once we have names picked out for all the new ones. Our coop will be revamped and allow more space and easier egg gathering.
Seedling/Garden Update
Lyndsey and I had to replant our seedlings, life got crazy, and we may or may not have forgotten to turn the heat light off….
We have started more seedlings that are all starting to germinate now and hope to start hardening them off and moving them into our new greenhouse soon. Our gardens are going to be tilled this week, and we are super excited for warmer temperatures coming! One thing we are learning through this journey is not to bite off more than we can chew. It feels like everything is chaos right now, but sometimes that is the fun of it. Our boys have been troopers, and love being out in nature with us. Watching them learn a long with us has been very rewarding. I look forward to sharing more updates as our progress continues!
