Spring is the season for new life. It's such a blessing to watch life break free of the grip of winter. We are enjoying several new litters of pigs, a ewe that has delivered triplets, and numerous new litters of baby bunnies. We've had some difficulties as well, including some rabbit does that did not seem to want to be moms, and a ewe that had a terrifically hard delivery that resulted in us losing all her lambs. But by and large, the coming of spring means new life, and we are thankful for the new young we have.
We've been busy getting seeds planted and ground prepared for the growing season. Lately we've planted about 15,000 onion seed in flats indoors, along with 700 or so tomatoes, and leeks, peppers, and eggplants. We've also prepared the remainder of the beds in one of our hoophouses for planting, which we will begin next week.
We invested in a BCS 853 walk-behind tractor this year, and it is a wonderful machine. We bought the Berta rotary plow and the 30" tiller, along with a potato digger and a cultivator. So far we've used the rotary plow and the tiller, and the machine is a beast. It chews through practically anything, and does a fine job of it. It is built like real farm machinery, not like the cheap homeowner equipment. I think we'll get a good lifetime of service from it. So far we couldn't be more pleased with our investment.
