School is just about to let out and things have been crazy busy both with my job, the farm, the kids, and my healthy living site!
This is the first year where I feel really nervous about the boys being home with me all day. While they are much more independent at 9 they also have a great love for all things electronic which means their choice of entertainment takes internet access which we don’t have enough bandwidth to support! I’ve decided that the solution is to simply lock them out of the internet until after 4pm when my normal work day ends which I have a feeling will mean the summer will start off bumpy.
We have decided to take on a challenge this year and do 100 days of growing as a family with the understanding that if the boys put in the hard work we will let them have a farm stand when produce starts coming on. So some of their time will be spent working in the gardens but we are putting in a lot of work to try to make maintaining the gardens as easy for all of us as possible. There will be a post about the gardens in the near future.
That being said I’m not too proud to admit we also made the decision to not be unrealistic about what we are comfortable growing ourselves and what we would rather buy from people we know and trust! As a result we decided to buy a CSA share from Plot Twist Farm this year which I’m super excited about! Stella and Jason were so fun in school and I’m so happy to be able to support them! Also the blog post that they post are super fun to read!
Brad guided bird hunts in WV for years before he moved home and the boys are looking forward to learning to bird hunt from him and his brother. To help with this we decided to raise chukars this year . Their flight pen is almost complete and once it is and we move them outside I will be sharing our experience with them so far.