Sometime in the next week I will be sending our first newsletter ever along with the full list of what Lillian's Farm will be offering for the 2007 season.
Please contact me ASAP to tell me if you would like me to mail you one. Also let me know if I can send you a few extras to pass onto your friends.
Produce, eggs & herbs & maybe wool will be available for purchase or trade AT:
the farm, monday deliveries to Melrose Park, and Thursdays at the North Wales Whole Foods.
Stay tuned, but make sure to get outside too!
stay posted for our wish list--to be out by tonite maybe!!
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Can I Get an "M" for manure??!!
So Sorry for not posting in nearly a month!
The weather has been crappy & I haven't felt that inspired or like I have that much to report about Lillian's Farm. I have been able to plant a few things here & there, clean animal areas. AND the big news is that we rebuilt our chicken yard!
The redesigned chicken yard is not 100% complete due to the fact that we ran out of materials... Our new chicken yard consists of three runs. Two will be rotated and used for our flock of layers. We will plant crops that will be yummy while the birds are in the other run, vice versa. Our third run is smaller & connects to the smaller chicken house. This is designed for two things: babies & eating birds. Since it is smaller we can put in creatures that will not be in there very long. And it won't be used year round so we can plant grasses there too. Right now we have 11 baby chickens and 4 ducks! (super soft & cute!) Some of these will stay in that run until we eat them and the others will join the crew of hardworking layers when they grow bigger.
This project was long anticipated & it feels so good to have met spring with our enthuisism to complete this as soon as we could bang posts into the ground. (well as soon as Chris & Sammy could bang posts into the ground).
I also have been working slow & hard (like a tortoise?) to clean out the sheep barn of their year of manure & straw bedding. The amazing thing about sheep poo balls is that they can be placed directly on your garden and are second highest in nitrogen to horses. Most manures - like cow & chicken one must dry or compost these first. In addition to having tons of chicken manure we are set to fertilize our garden. We even have enough to share!
Please contact me asap if you want any sheep or chicken manure for your garden projects. We are rich in the black gold and want to share it (plus we do not want to have a nitrogen imbalance so it would be nice to find land for some of this).
Last year I had another farmer graciously dump huge amounts of cow manure on our garden, which I am so gratefull for. However, does it not feel amazing to be sustainable in terms of manure as fertilizer! YES IT DOES! Can I get a M? Can I get an A? a N? a U? R!! E!!
MANURE!!
hurrah
The weather has been crappy & I haven't felt that inspired or like I have that much to report about Lillian's Farm. I have been able to plant a few things here & there, clean animal areas. AND the big news is that we rebuilt our chicken yard!
The redesigned chicken yard is not 100% complete due to the fact that we ran out of materials... Our new chicken yard consists of three runs. Two will be rotated and used for our flock of layers. We will plant crops that will be yummy while the birds are in the other run, vice versa. Our third run is smaller & connects to the smaller chicken house. This is designed for two things: babies & eating birds. Since it is smaller we can put in creatures that will not be in there very long. And it won't be used year round so we can plant grasses there too. Right now we have 11 baby chickens and 4 ducks! (super soft & cute!) Some of these will stay in that run until we eat them and the others will join the crew of hardworking layers when they grow bigger.
This project was long anticipated & it feels so good to have met spring with our enthuisism to complete this as soon as we could bang posts into the ground. (well as soon as Chris & Sammy could bang posts into the ground).
I also have been working slow & hard (like a tortoise?) to clean out the sheep barn of their year of manure & straw bedding. The amazing thing about sheep poo balls is that they can be placed directly on your garden and are second highest in nitrogen to horses. Most manures - like cow & chicken one must dry or compost these first. In addition to having tons of chicken manure we are set to fertilize our garden. We even have enough to share!
Please contact me asap if you want any sheep or chicken manure for your garden projects. We are rich in the black gold and want to share it (plus we do not want to have a nitrogen imbalance so it would be nice to find land for some of this).
Last year I had another farmer graciously dump huge amounts of cow manure on our garden, which I am so gratefull for. However, does it not feel amazing to be sustainable in terms of manure as fertilizer! YES IT DOES! Can I get a M? Can I get an A? a N? a U? R!! E!!
MANURE!!
hurrah
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Egg Cartons & Lending Hands
Slight update from yesterday's post. I will be working on garden & animal areas wed-thurs-fri afternoons & saturday all day. Not sunday, as I will be milking.
ALSO! we need egg cartons, now more than ever!
Preferably paper boxes, but we will take styro.
I will be posting a wish list asap, which will just be a secret catalyst to encourage yall to clear out some junk. Egg cartons is on the list but we need them often , like yesterday! please help, help
We get about at least a dozen eggs per day, feel free to buy some! do not worry--you won't be robbing us of our homegrown-protein.
If anyone wants to come & lend a hand maybe we could boil some eggs pretty colors or something? to celebrate the fertility of spring & the wholeness of the egg shape.
Good Pesach, Yom Tov yall!
ALSO! we need egg cartons, now more than ever!
Preferably paper boxes, but we will take styro.
I will be posting a wish list asap, which will just be a secret catalyst to encourage yall to clear out some junk. Egg cartons is on the list but we need them often , like yesterday! please help, help
We get about at least a dozen eggs per day, feel free to buy some! do not worry--you won't be robbing us of our homegrown-protein.
If anyone wants to come & lend a hand maybe we could boil some eggs pretty colors or something? to celebrate the fertility of spring & the wholeness of the egg shape.
Good Pesach, Yom Tov yall!
Sunday, April 1, 2007
lend a hand, if yr inspired
next weekend I will be getting a lot done in the garden, unless the weather is crappy.. then I'll stay inside prolly. This week was semi-productive in the garden, but have some hold ups so I had to work on other things like: drinking herbal teas that help with spring allergies and seasonal changes, walking with puppies, having breakfast with my girlfriends in my writing group, making cheese , bread, muffins, preparing food for the week.
At the influence of her new housemates, smokey n roti, Haley had her first dinner of raw chicken with buckwheat, carrots, and lots of other great ingredients. She ate that down, every little bit of it. Well, except all of the crumbs on the floor..
oh yes, next weekend I plan to be working on the garden& sheep barn & chicken coop & yard. I will be out on saturday day& sunday day. I invite anyone to help out on one of those days. I don't have much to trade with this at this early season, but we can be creative. Please call or email to say you can come & help. thanks so much!
If the weather is sunny, warm, with blue skies maybe the beautiful views, the brisk breeze and friendly animals will inspire you to pay a visit to the hawk mountain area.
peace, peas, n carrots,
my best spring wishes
At the influence of her new housemates, smokey n roti, Haley had her first dinner of raw chicken with buckwheat, carrots, and lots of other great ingredients. She ate that down, every little bit of it. Well, except all of the crumbs on the floor..
oh yes, next weekend I plan to be working on the garden& sheep barn & chicken coop & yard. I will be out on saturday day& sunday day. I invite anyone to help out on one of those days. I don't have much to trade with this at this early season, but we can be creative. Please call or email to say you can come & help. thanks so much!
If the weather is sunny, warm, with blue skies maybe the beautiful views, the brisk breeze and friendly animals will inspire you to pay a visit to the hawk mountain area.
peace, peas, n carrots,
my best spring wishes
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
eyes on lillian's
Keep your eyes on this blog.. the blog of all blogs!
Soon I will be posting a schedule of garden project days, in hopes that some of my city & suburban friends want to get their hands a little muddy by offering a few helping hands. (It'll be fun I promise).
I will also be posting a garden & farm wish list, which will consist of things yall may have in your garage/basement/shed/trash.
And as the season moves on I will post lists of what crops we will have for sale or barder/trade this season. An exciting variety of fresh Salad greens will be first up!
We always have eggs for sale at $3/dozen. I do deliveries to the Cheltenham area every monday morning. You CANNOT beat buying eggs from a small producer. We are able to feed our chicks well & give them love in so much excess since we are small producers that their egg yolks are nearly red! (that's from the love from my red heart, right? or was it those red bell peppers?)
This week I am starting seeds (later than norm because of highly valuable trip to sweden), working on the chicken yard, and finding a shearer who can handshear my sheepies, among other normal things that I do.
Oh! Also tomorrow we have a marvelous new roomate moving in with two sweet pups! (thats big I guess!)
peace,
keep your eyes on lillian's
(not in the surveillance way, ya know what I means)
Soon I will be posting a schedule of garden project days, in hopes that some of my city & suburban friends want to get their hands a little muddy by offering a few helping hands. (It'll be fun I promise).
I will also be posting a garden & farm wish list, which will consist of things yall may have in your garage/basement/shed/trash.
And as the season moves on I will post lists of what crops we will have for sale or barder/trade this season. An exciting variety of fresh Salad greens will be first up!
We always have eggs for sale at $3/dozen. I do deliveries to the Cheltenham area every monday morning. You CANNOT beat buying eggs from a small producer. We are able to feed our chicks well & give them love in so much excess since we are small producers that their egg yolks are nearly red! (that's from the love from my red heart, right? or was it those red bell peppers?)
This week I am starting seeds (later than norm because of highly valuable trip to sweden), working on the chicken yard, and finding a shearer who can handshear my sheepies, among other normal things that I do.
Oh! Also tomorrow we have a marvelous new roomate moving in with two sweet pups! (thats big I guess!)
peace,
keep your eyes on lillian's
(not in the surveillance way, ya know what I means)
Thursday, March 22, 2007
on our way back to the farm...
well folks, we are on our way home today. It has been an amazing and often difficult trip with lots more to write about..but Ill have to do that from home. Because this morning I want to semi enjoy myself AND straighten up the house, take the recycling, compost etc just in case my sister does not. (Mamma is in ghana for 3 weeks). We leave the house at 1pm and somehow get home late tonite. This time travel crap is so bizarre and my body never seems to accept it. So it will be nice to get back to my time zone. AND MY ANIMAL FRIENDS! and fresh eggs with red yolks and planting seeds! hurrah!
Many thanks to my motherland for hostessing us and giving us fairly nice weather, pretty forests, great views, bridges, frozen lakes, running water, kitty cats, good candy, great fish products, sheep friends, old fashioned feelings, wonderous architecture, and family.
peace from over here, see you there.
Many thanks to my motherland for hostessing us and giving us fairly nice weather, pretty forests, great views, bridges, frozen lakes, running water, kitty cats, good candy, great fish products, sheep friends, old fashioned feelings, wonderous architecture, and family.
peace from over here, see you there.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
looking for a new place to live?
hey, anyone need a place to live? we have a room or two avaliable. contact for details
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