solstice progress

well several things have changed since my last post. Today I doubled the size of the garden yet again by moving the goats out of their old dirt yard where we have kept goats for 14 years (such rich soil!) and i rototilled a whole new area for beds. I now have probably 200 tomato plants and my sister keeps bringing home orphaned cabbage, onion, basil, pepper and tomato plants from her job managing the farm stand at Morning Glory Farm (http://www.morninggloryfarm.com/) I also just received my box with $120 worth of seeds from "Seeds of Change" including 3 types of corn, beans, lettuce, carrots, artichoke, nettles, yarrow, St. Johns Wort, Lavender, habanero peppers, amaranth, quinoa, beets, cabbage, burdock, leeks, kale, spinach, mugwort, chamomile, echinacea etc. ( http://www.seedsofchange.com/) so i Really need more space to plant!

I also worked all day hacking a trail through the crazy wild chaos of our untouched forest jungle trying to set up an electric fence that will contain our four nutty goats so that they can spend their summer browsing on the abundant vines and bittersweet.

i'll put up more photos ASAP, but for now suffice to say that i have apple trees sprouting from seed in pots, the sunfloweers are springing up, the acorn sqaush is takiong over, the chickens are loving the freshly turned black ea rth and i am so sleepy my eyes are closing even as i type this.....