Although I raised a vegetable garden in 2006, these are all first-time major additions to our homestead.
2007
- planted our first organic vegetable and herb garden including
- perennial starts of asparagus, raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries
- built a chicken coop and added laying hens
- added red wiggler composting worms
- rhubarb crowns planted
- purchased two Nigerian Dwarf milking goats
- built a shed for the goats
- planted fall garlic
- we added two cold hardy dwarf fruit trees to the front yard, one peach and one plum
- and two elderberries
- planted hops rhizomes
- raised our own laying hens
- first goat kids born
- identified maple trees on property for tapping and syrup production
- planted cranberry bushes and one concord grape on an arbor built in'09
- shared our garden with our first CSA member
- purchased bees and hive
- raised and slaughtered two groups of meat chickens, Cornish cross and Red Ranger
- added a milking room and kidding stall to our goat house
- sold two doe kid goats
- purchased buck goat as a kid
- butchered a spring lamb
- harvested and processed acorns
- invested in land
- ramped up hard cider production
- one fall raised group of Red Rangers on pasture
- add two heritage breed piglets to make use of whey and acorns
- build a root cellar for aging cheese and storing fall harvest
- try to produce a brie/Camembert and waxed Gouda cheese from goat's milk
- begin a small orchard on additional acreage
- process two lambs
- give bees another try
- Meyer lemon trees in pot
- begin an outdoor mushroom patch
- add meat rabbits or begin hunting squirrel
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