This week was tough! It was hay making week, and bucking hay is a lot of work. First, Tim mows the hay. Then he rakes it a few times over the next few days while it is drying. Then he bales it with this attachment he pulls behind the tractor that picks the hay up, packs it in bales, and ties the twine around them. Then for the bucking. Someone drives a truck with a trailer and the other people lift the bales onto the trailer. Then we have to unload the trailer and stack them into the barn. We hayed about 13 acres on two fields and got almost 1100 bales at 50-70 lbs each. That's twenty something tons that we lifted at least once! In between loads of hay, we weeded the radish for the last time. They are making seeds now, and we should be harvesting them relatively soon.
In other news, 10 more chickens got eaten one night when no one closed the coop. Poor chickens. Luckily Blindy and White Chicken, the only chickens we can tell apart from the others survived. One goat had two kids, but one died the next day. The goats and puppies are very cute and fun to watch. They have all been escaping though. So far the goats we have named are: Pepe, Fluffy, Blackbeard, Goat Mom, and Baby Goat.
We have been eating a lot of food from the garden- peas, broccoli, carrots, lettuce, spinach, and a little bok choi for stir fry. The cantaloupes, zucchini, and cucumbers all died of a fungus infection this week, so we will have to try to find some plants. We also planted 500 pots of kale for a seed crop.
Tomorrow we will be going to a class on breadmaking, composting, and tractor safety. Hopefully we will go climbing and swimming afterwards.