Once we got the fence around the garden completed, it was full speed ahead on digging the beds, most of which were all but destroyed by chickens and wayward pigs. Except that it’s been a lovely, cool, wet, Appalachian spring, the likes of which we haven’t seen in a few years! It’s been gorgeous, but very, very hard to dig in the garden! Yesterday was dry and sunny, and the day before it only rained in the morning, so I think it’s actually going to be dry enough to prepare some more beds today. I have four young strong people from Wildroots coming today to work in exchange for dairy products and eggs (and lunch), so I think we’ll haul manure, clear weeds, break the beds, and maybe even crank up the tiller I’ve borrowed (also in exchange for dairy products) from our neighbors. I’m very excited to see how much we can accomplish!

Looks like Dixie the pig might be getting bred in the near future—I’m looking so forward to baby pigs. We’ve been looking for a Gloucestershire Old Spot boar (or sow or weaners), but they’re proving difficult to find around here!

I’m also trying to sell this bull for our neighbor. He really doesn’t want him back, and we’d really like to get him gone now the both the ladies are bred (to calve in January—sheesh!) Not having too much luck selling him on craigslist so far.