Greetings from a snowy farm this morning,
all Deliveries and Pick up will be Wednesday this week.
We hope that everyone had a great Thanksgivings. We just stayed at home and let the kids help cook the meal. Our turkey was humongous 35lb to exact. Needless to say we are eating leftovers for the weekend and turkey is being put in the freezer for other meals this week. All of our sides also came from the farm with Brussel sprouts, parsnips, corn (which we froze some this summer), cauliflower, sweet potatoes, and pink mashed potatoes. Yes I said pick, Michael picked our the potatoes and decided that he wanted to use the all red potatoes this year. I don't think we ever have regular white mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving. But that is ok, that is the best part of growing a range of vegetables and being able to have different things at the dinner table.
On the farm we have been busy getting ready for this cold weather, blankets were put on the greens and root crops. The tomato tunnel was picked out and everything was cut down. The cows got moved from their fall pasture to winter grazing pastures which this all the grass we have stocked pilled. The cows will be on rotational grazing pasture until at least February unless we get a lot of snow. Our laying chickens got sorted all of extra roosters removed from the flock. The hens a few roosters that we keep got moved to the tomato tunnel to do clean up control of leftover tomatoes and pest. Also because fertilizer prices are sky rocketing we are letting the chicken fertilize the hoop so we don't have to and save us some work and money. The chickens will stay in the hoop until the end of January and the be moved back to pasture. The hoop will then be tilled washed down ad sterilized just in time to plant tomatoes in February.
Also this week our last batch of meat chickens go to the butcher shop. We were supposed to take them up on Monday but they called and change the day to Tuesday.
That is why all Deliveries and Pick up will be Wednesday this week.
I hope you all understand the change in delivery this week. That is one thing with farming nothing seems to go as planned and we just go with it.
I hope everyone has a great week,
The Schultz Family
