Colonial Plantation Era

This growing season I got busy with 5 new chicks, 2 tufted buff goslings (send by mail from Metzger Poultry in California.  Since one of my hens "went broody" this spring, I gave her two fertilized eggs to hatch which she did and now I also have 2 sweet cuckoo maran chicks along with the others.

I made Hugelkultur beds this year, since my raised bed frames were rotting, and visited Sweetwater Bakery to learn how to load and burn the wood for my oven.

I called Warren Graham, my beekeeping mentor and asked him to come and consult on the condition of my hives this spring.  I mentioned  that I would be willing to help him with the bees at Colonial Plantation as this year I won't be volunteering at Rushton Farm.

Two days later I got a call from Warren asking me if I wanted to help train the steer at Colonial Plantation.  He had just found out that the farmer there was leaving and there was no one to help handle the steer who is 13 months old and very large.  David, the farmer, raised him from a calf, bottle feeding him.  Also, there was a draft horse there that no one knew how to harness.