Around the farm this Monday morning

 All the seedling 4 packs have now been transplanted into 6" pots( these are cabbage), next move will be to harden them off in mid to end of May, then into the garden.

 Tomatoes, about 25 of the 65 will be planted directly into the hoop house, hopefully around mid May and the remainder in the main garden about the same time with "Walls of Water" around them.

 I planted our onion sets on Sat, red and white 125+ of each variety

 The irises are up, I can't wait until they bloom, they are my favorite flower.

 This is Chamomile, you can see the frost on it, but it is tough as nails and keeps going! Can you tell we really like it?*wink*  Actually it blew seeds all over our garden, some of which I will transplant into areas I want it as companion plantings.

 Rhubarb is finally peeking through it's mulch blanket. The asparagus is still hiding, waiting for warmer temperatures

The garlic, 100% germination; YEAH!!!!

We're still covering stuff in the hoop house, due to below freezing temps at night.

 This is some new lettuce mix, planted almost two weeks ago and almost ready for harvest.

 Spring onions and radishes. There is also cabbage and turnips in this bed

 This is the Lettuce, Beets, Swiss chard and Kale we started back the end of Feb. We've been enjoying salads and steamed greens for several weeks now. Soon we'll have small beets and turnip roots to add to our meals :o)

 This is Valerian, it overwintered beautifully in the hoop house, as did the Root beer Hyssop.

 Now outside again, the chives enjoying the warmth of the sunshine.

 These are the transplanted raspberries from last Spring, when I was thinning the main bed last Spring, looks as if they all overwintered well and are off to an early start.

 If you click the picture you see them better. Here are the "Freedom Rangers", they are almost 6 weeks old and looking rather gawky. This morning we did find one dead, don't know what happened, as it was laying by the feeder, didn't appear sick and was a healthy size( heart related maybe?) Thankfully that is our only loss and lets pray it stays that way.

 Ginger greets me this way each morning, when it's time for her feed.

 Angel and her twins enjoying breakfast! Ginger's wether is to busy, see below!

 Well... we said we weren't going to name him, but....... we kept saying, "look he's such a pistol ! ", and it stuck so.... "Pistol" it is! He's to busy wanting to play to eat some feed, Mama has plenty of milk, so why worry*wink*  Little guy stole all the milk one night before milking, so now we separate them for several hours so we can get our fair share, LOL!!!!!

 Ginger enjoying her breakfast. We've been a few rounds and she's still testing me, but she is settling down into a nice milker. We're getting almost 2 qt a night and Pistol has it all day, until a few hours before milking.  Now the next challenge is trimming her hooves*sigh* I've been working with her in the mornings picking up her feet and holding them up a little longer and longer, she still fights me some but feel we can successfully get her feet trimmed now.

 This is another thing I do when the girls are eating in the stanchion (in the mornings.) They both enjoy it and it gets out all the dead winter undercoat. Ginger especially enjoys it up behind her horns.  If you'll notice her horns are cut back, this was done before we got her. She is aggressive over food( with Angel and the kids, not toward us at all)  She's finally settling in and seems to understand this is her forever home, she's been sort of standoff-ish until last week.  Both of the Does are gaining weight and their coats are looking better too.  I've been breaking them into grazing on the green grass gently, first it was for 30 minutes a day, now they're up to 1 hour. I just want to be sure they don't bloat of get upset rumens due to the rich new grass, so far so good. :o)

 Pistol, still playing! Isn't he cute?  When he is weaned we already have him sold to a good home. He'll be a pet and companion to an older horse.

 Angel has had her fill of feed and now enjoys some hay.

 Ginger eating some alfalfa hay cubes( small and broken pieces)

I'd like to introduce"Chance", isn't he precious?  His face reminds me of those Ewoks(sp?) in the Star Wars movies. Poor little fella is actually two days older than Sarah and Lucy, but his Mama dried up and he wasn't getting enough, thus the reason he's here being bottle raised.

In a few weeks they will be weaned and ready to return to the Sheep ranch. We're always sad to see them go, and yet again Cortney is always glad to decrease the feedings, beginning with the middle of the night feedings; she enjoys her sleep, undisturbed, *wink*

This week is fore casted to be warm with chances of rain, so........ if it all works out we hope to have our  potatoes planted by mid week as well as get some salad greens and root crops,except carrots we'll wait until mid to end of May to plant them as we've learned from experience that it works better that way. Everything else will wait until end of May, but we'll have plenty to do with yard and flowerbed clean up, thinning of the raspberries, planting more strawberries and building more raised( mounded) beds.

Blessing to each of you this week and Thank you for visiting our farm.  :o)