Farm Friday

This week was even less exciting than last week. We're planning our fall and winter garden, and starting to plant some of the earlier-planted crops like beets and cabbage. It seems all of the vegetables I don't like are the ones that grow in winter. I've been trying hard to make myself like tomatoes, however, so maybe by force-feeding myself boiled cabbage, steamed broccoli, radishes and spinach this winter I can come to tolerate them. My only ray of hope is that home grown or farmers' market vegetables always taste better than the grocery store version.

I thought I should post a picture of our farm mascots. They're big fans of siestas on hot days, so we often catch them napping. I'm not sure if we've ever blogged about these two, so I should probably introduce them. The cat is named Tiger and the goat is Abigail.

80 more Cornish Cross chickens arrived at our post office this morning and they've happily settled into the brooder. They're so cute when they're less than a week old.

I have to do a followup on my Optimistic World News, because corn (and thus chicken feed) has gone down even more, gas is even cheaper, and although the temperatures are a little warmer, it has been breezy. And over in Beijing, the U.S. is ahead of (communist) China in overall medals.