Wooo Hoo! We've got 3 1/4 gardens planted! Yesterday we got lettuce, chard, radishes and kohlrabi planted. Today, Grampa decided to follow the St. Patrick's day rule and plant a bed of potatoes.
In Nehemiah (a book in the Bible) the Israelites rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem with a hammer in one hand and a sword in the other. We had our own battle as we planted our delicious little transplants in the raised beds. Couldn't turn our backs without a silly chicken jumping in and plucking them up. This hungry little invader has been foiled by cattle panels and plastic!!!!!!!!!!
The lambs are getting really big. hopefully they will all be ready for the Easter market. If anyone is interested in buying directly from us, we will have whole or 1/2 lambs available for $4.25/lb hanging weight. We will take them to the Carthage locker plant for free or to any other plant for $1.00/ mile one way.
Our geese are really laying! This one was laid on top of the nest. There were two others underneath the hay today. If you are interested in goose eggs, we sell fresh eggs for 75 cents each or $4.00/6-pack. Blown eggs ready for crafts are $1.00 each.
In other news:
We finally got our taxes done! Betty managed to find enough deductions that we didn't show a profit, but it was really close. I was rather disappointed, but on the other hand, I didn't claim all the deductions I could take on my off farm jobs just to make sure we wouldn't get stuck with a big tax bill, so now I'm going to get a nice refund and a much needed new computer! My ancient desktop has been needing to be replaced for quite a while now. I'm planning to get a mini. These computers have about the lowest memory space you can buy now and yet they have about 100 times the memory that my desktop has.
Grama Sue's Rainbow Eggs are now available at the Harrison Street Hy Vee in Quincy! We will be there Saturday to do a promotion. Stop by if you are in town.
This week we will probably sell around 150 dozen eggs! Thanks so much to all you wonderful people who have made that happen. Did a little figuring a few minutes ago. Looks like we're up to about $4.50/hour for our labor. Of course, we are plowing all that back in to the farm to make it more efficient, but someday we hope to be able to afford to pay someone at least minimum wage to help around here.
I read somewhere that the difference between the entrepreneur mindset and a job mindset is that the person looking for a job looks at the immediate paycheck and the entrepreneur looks at the longterm profit. There's a lot of sacrifice in building a farm from scratch, but we believe the rewards are worth it. The first year, Grampa worked and worked and made about $1/hour. He kept saying, "I may not be making much money, but it's MY money." It will keep on growing!
God Bless You All!
~Grama Sue
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