Fall

Well, as you can all tell the fall semester is well underway and I haven't been very good at keeping up my blog.  Working and taking classes has kept me very busy.  The gardening has wound down, the only think I still have to do is to plant my garlic.  Garlic is planted in the fall and harvested the following summer. It is actually really neat you can just take a head of garlic (like what you use to cook with) and split it into the individual cloves and those are what you plant.  So one head of garlic will potentially yield 10-12 (depending on size) new heads. 

We are also discussing plans for the chicken coop. We hope to get the laying hens in March/April and will need a permanent house for them.  It needs to be insulated and other stuff.  I want it to be pretty, Paul wants it to be practical, we will hopefully compromise and it will be both.

I am also tentatively getting a sheep in the spring.  Paul mentioned it out of the blue last week. So next summer the Earp farm in addition to the garden should have: laying hens, meat chickens, and 1 sheep.  It grows a little each year.