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Saturday on the Farm

May 29, 2010 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

Saturday on the Farm

It’s been a peaceful week on Crooked Creek Farm. Even the animals were laying around peacefully.

Meet Samson our male Boer Cross goat. He’s laying on top of the hay trough. I don’t how that thing holds him up, because he’s big.

The garden is doing well. And as you can see from the pictures, we haven’t been able to get out there and weed. There is enough spinach ready for a salad.

And look at our first tomato! I haven’t told my husband about it yet, or he’d want to make Fried Green Tomatoes!

These are wild black raspberries growing in our yard. We thought they were blackberries at first, as we have a lot of blackberries in our year. My husband looked them up, and they are black raspberries. They are so delicious!

These buds will be red raspberries very soon.

A red raspberry blossom.

Our Red Bud tree has so many seed pods this year. The whole tree looks like this. I’ve never seen so many before.

Ok, it’s time for the Saturday on the Farm Carnival!

To participate, just write a post about your homestead, farm, farmette, or the tomato plant on your deck. Your cows, goats, chicken, or your favorite kitty cat.

In your post, include a link back to me. Then enter your link below.

It’s that easy! Hope to see your link below!

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Saturday on the Farm

May 22, 2010 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

Saturday on the Farm

This week, our major project was building a rabbit hutch. I got the idea for building it from watching this video, Self-Sufficiency: Part One, it’s a very interesting tour of this guys property. He showed these rabbit hutches, and it’s just what we needed.

This is our new rabbit hutch in our backyard.  That’s a hinged door on top. So we can fold back half of it, for access to the rabbits.
We will be covering the door in plastic to protect it from the weather. We still might paint the wood. Beast, the large male on the left, was chewing the wood shortly after being moved into his new home. We’ll have to wait and see if he stops, Hopefully, he does,  or he really will be eating himself out of house and home!
We have chicken wire on the sides, and wire with small square openings in it, I don’t know what it’s called, on the bottom. We can rake the droppings out from under the bottom, and put them in the compost pile. Here’s a view from the top.

All the rabbits seem to really like their new home. These are pet rabbits. We would like to get fiber rabbits, though. I have been out voted on meat rabbits.

Ok, it’s time for the Saturday on the Farm Carnival!

To participate, just write a post about your homestead, farm, farmette, or the tomato plant on your deck. Your cows, goats, chicken, or your favorite kitty cat.

In your post, include a link back to me. Then enter your link below.

It’s that easy! Hope to see your link below!

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Saturday on the Farm

May 15, 2010 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

Saturday on the Farm

We got some more things planted in the garden this week. The spinach, lettuces, peas, green beans and onions are up and growing. We had 2 tomato plants given to us, and D bought some more. He also bought 12 bell pepper plants, and so many cabbage plants that I lost count. It was over 20. Guess we won’t run out of cabbage, good thing I can freeze it!

You can see the cardboard that we have spread out on the end of the garden. This is where we plant all the squashes, melons and other plants that take up a lot of room. We will cut holes in the cardboard to plant. The cardboard stops all the weeds. You can also use newspapers and hay. We’ve done that before and it works well.

The iris’s are blooming in the flower garden on the end of the house. This kind only blooms once. You can barely see them, but there are purple iris’s among the yellow ones. Just ignore the weeds. 🙂

I found an awesome website the other day you might like, Organic Gardening and Homesteading. I found so much useful information there. This site has a wealth of information for everyone.

Ok, it’s time for the Saturday on the Farm Carnival!

To participate, just write a post about your homestead, farm, farmette, or the tomato plant on your deck. Your cows, goats, chicken, or your favorite kitty cat.

In your post, include a link back to me. Then enter your link below.

It’s that easy! Hope to see your link below!

For more garden ideas, visit Fertilizer Friday – Flaunt Your Flowers and Square Foot Gardening

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Saturday on the Farm

May 8, 2010 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

We finally worked in the garden this week. I couldn’t believe how tall the grass and weeds had gotten already!

That’s me in the straw hat using a wheel hoe that belonged to my husbands Grandfather.

As soon as we got one end ready, we started planting. We planted spinach, snow peas, onion sets, mesculen, and green leaf lettuce.

Just a few days later, some of the onions are up!

We grow green beans on these two fences. We like to use grass as mulch between the rows. If the grass clippings are at least 6 inches deep, it won’t grow, but it will keep the weeds from growing.

This is a picture of the garden taken from the road. We still have work to do over on the left where we grown yellow squash, zucchini, pumpkins, and anything else that takes up a lot of room. On the other side of the creek, we have asparagus, comfrey for the animals, and we will plant our corn over there, too. We have to finish planting the front garden, too!

The chives in the herb garden are blooming.

Ok, it’s time for the Saturday on the Farm Carnival!

To participate, just write a post about your homestead, farm, farmette, or the tomato plant on your deck. Your cows, goats, chicken, or your favorite kitty cat.

In your post, include a link back to me. Then enter your link below.

It’s that easy! Hope to see your link below!

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Saturday on the Farm

April 30, 2010 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

I mentioned last week that another one of our cats had kittens. Here they are….

Kittens are so cute. We now have 9 kittens, and 4 adult cats. We’re going to have to give away/sell the kittens. The kids won’t be happy, but what are we supposed to do with 13 cats?!

The dogwoods were in full bloom earlier this week.

They are so beautiful!

I hate to say it, but we STILL haven’t gotten anything planted in the garden. We have a long growing season here in Kentucky, but the longer we wait to put anything in, the longer we have to wait for fresh produce!

We have on more Bible Drill Competition tonight, and then everyone’s working in the garden.

Ok, it’s time for the Saturday on the Farm Carnival!

To participate, just write a post about your homestead, farm, farmette, or the tomato plant on your deck. Your cows, goats, chicken, or your favorite kitty cat.

In your post, include a link back to me. Then enter your link below.

It’s that easy! Hope to see your link below!

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Saturday on the Farm

April 24, 2010 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

We had a good week this week. Unfortunately, we didn’t get any garden work done.

Well, Hannah planted some flower bulbs, but that’s all. No veggies. But this coming week, for sure.

We spent the week chasing baby goats. sigh…….they are eating all the plants and trees in the yard. D has tried fixing the fence. but they keep getting out…….somewhere……

We have to fix it soon, or we won’t have any plants or trees left!

Another one of our cats had kittens on Friday. She had 5 kittens. So now we have 9 kittens. The kids think they are keeping them all. Nope, sorry kids, not happening.

I don’t even have any pictures to post this week. We have been so busy with other stuff. Like Bible Drill. That’s why this post is late, we had a State Bible Drill that took all day today.

So I’ll be back next Saturday with pictures, and the new Saturday on the Farm Carnival!

Please join me next Saturday for the Saturday on the Farm Carnival!

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Saturday on The Farm Carnival

April 21, 2010 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

Coming Soon…Saturday, May 1st…


Saturday on the Farm Carnival…


All you have to do to participate is write a post on your blog about your farm, your homestead, your farmette, your tomato plant on your deck..


Come back on Saturday, May 1st, and enter your link in the carnival.


We’ll have lots of fun visiting each others farms.


Hope to see you Saturday!

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