Carthvean Farm

Spring has sprung!

09 Mar 2011 Leave a Comment

by carthveanfarm in animals, fruit, veg & veggie coop, sustainability

Birds are building nests, there’s a few bees around, the daffs are out and yesterday was sunny and lovely, today is chilly again though…lets hope it passes fast!

Happenings of the last little while:

• The broad beans are pushing through the soil in our outdoor beds.
• The first early potatoes are in the ground (some in the polytunnel and some outdoors)
• The wind turbine has arrived! The lorry that brought it couldn’t fit down the lane, so the energy company who are putting it up had to bring other vehicles to get it onto the farm
• The propogators & greenhouse have gone crazy…most things are coming through now. We’ve been sowing things in the polytunnels too!
• We have HUGE to do lists for our veggie coop.
• Ayla has been crawling for a while and is now pulling herself up on things & enjoying trying out walking (just holding our hands still!) She’s 8 and a half months now. Still only 2 teeth!!
• Erin is enjoying Zelda School, which is a Steiner inspired school run in a yurt in Gweek. Erin and Ayla have also gone to a lovely playgroup at nearby Trannack School.
• Julie is getting her energy back after her 5 weeks in bed with pneumonia. It’s so good to have her back!
• Tara (the Golden Guernsey) has been scanned and only has one baby, which wriggles a lot now! he’s due on the 25th of April.
• Steven has been doing cutting loads of wood, and we have enough kindling to last us a looooong time! Jane has done loads too.
• The miniature southdown sheep have been sold! All except old Daisy who needs TLC and is quite a pet. Erin loves that she follows her around!
• Andrew fitted a compost loo in the mobile home for Spike & Andy. It’s not a longdrop but a rather funky one that looks pretty similar to a normal loo. Basically, your wee goes in the front bit & poo in the back(2 separate compartments). We did have an incident where Erin used it for a number 2 without the child seat…meaning her bottom was too far forward….need I say more?!
• Polly came to visit. She used to live and wwoof on the farm and it was lovely to see her & catch up. She did lots of jobs while she was here, including helping Julie train the horse & mules and sowing lots of seeds.
• Spike, Andy, Julie & Andrew planted about 50 trees today! We were meant to help but I had to go to the dentist and Steven took the girls out but it was a bit cold for them!
• Andrew has been building the shop that is going to have Julie’s alpaca shop stock in it (and possibly my Nature’s Mother stuff too).
• Here are our feb and march to do lists for the veggie coop side of things, if anyone is interested what is going in where and when.  feb-to-do-list march-to-do-list
• Julie has been training Molly the mule, and Erin has been on a little saddle on her back!!
• Steven made a wonderful table in the greenhouse to create more space

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