My husband is an old school farmer. He wants to till and disc up everything. I am trying to get him to try a new way (an new way for him) to not grind up the ground so much and use a bunch things we have to build UP the soil.
I laid down card board... another recycle, reuse.
We have a bunch of clean dirt.
I went through some of my wool. To dispel a myth.... our sheep are sheared not butchered for their wool.
This summer I hope to have enough time to really get into spinning wool.
I took all the grungy bits and laid it on the cardboard. It works as a mulch.
Then topped that with the compost.
The final step is the new dirt. I had to giggle. When I got home from work, I found Dude had made a "box" around it. It does look nice and thank you.
In the coming days I will put my herbs here and maybe more strawberries. I like that it is a large area.
Here's what's going on in the greenhouse.
Meat hens are growing quickly. This may be the last time we raise them. We have raised them for the last 6 years. The expense, butchering them and going more toward a veggie base life it doesn't make sense to raise so many for us. We also no longer butcher our lambs.
Happy Thankful Thursday.
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