Time is relentless. If one doubts this, practice farming on any level. Tomorrow always comes, then flows into yesterday with or with out direct participation from you.
Today is my favorite calendar day of the year, Winter Solstice + 1 = shortening nights and lengthening days and a return of the growing season!!!!
Yesterday one of our local nursery folks hosted their traditional solstice sale so I picked up more berries, blue berries and lingon berries. Today I planted them in the berry patch. I found a wonderful soil surprise!
The woody bed that has been piled with wood chips over the fall – and is now full of worms and worm castings! The bed is covered with a hoop and cloth so is one of the warmest spaces in the garden.
We have not had rain, and the precipitation we did get was snow, so it has been cold and dry. January is only a few days away now so I have watered and set up another bed with hoop and cloth in preparation of planting some very cool weather items in the coming weeks (greens, rooted veggies).
The livestock has dealt with the cold with resilience. The pigs were double fed, and the goats came into the barn. It was agreed that it was time for the goats to go. They have found a new home as weed eaters on some local rangeland that has been overrun. The buck will now have a small harem to care for, and no boars to fight with!
Wishing all a blessed Christmas and New Year!
