Things that are not working this week: riding lawn mower, push lawn mower, weed-eater. Things that are working this week: tractor, Randy’s wheelchair, pick-up truck. It feels like everything is broken, but as the above inventory indicates – we are about 50% operational. The cool room was freezing up at the beginning of the week, but appears to be working now.
Thankfully, the part for Randy’s chair came in early in the week and he is no longer held hostage in the house. The lawn is knee high, so I guess we’ll just start calling it an eco-yard.
In the update department – Our cowpea cover crop did come up satisfactorily so we don’t have to replant (phew!). The Killdeer family now has three young ones with disproportionally long legs and big heads that have been running around the farm with mom and dad. Someone in the chicken yard has laid three small tan speckled eggs. Guinea? Chicken? I guess we had better build those laying boxes!
On Thursday some folks from the Gaining Ground Sustainability Institute of Mississippi came to see the farm, interview us, and take some video as part of a project to build a network of sustainable and organic farmers in Mississippi. We have relied so much on the help, advice and expertise of other Mid-South farmers that we are happy to be part of any project that helps farmers get connected.
Other than that we’ve just been trying to hold it down without overheating.
