Spring Projects: Is this hoarding?

I still need to get better at photos and video. Many things need improving here at Farm Life Farm.

A quick list of upcoming and ongoing projects.

• Organize all the "stuff" (much more on this later)

• Cover the Brooder Pen

• Build greenhouse

• Dig out the muck in the low spot of the lower Paddock

• Remove felled timber from hill

• Fell the three trees interfering w our starlink.

• Build the barn

• put up 3 cord for next winter

• Build enclosure for the 3 cord of fire wood

The list is not in any particular order as a myriad variables affect our daily lists. For example, today was going to be an organization day. We would like to have pushed that off until the greenhouse was complete, but the matriarch has voiced a concern: She is overwhelmed and we must remove that burden from our geriatric charge...and she is not wrong, it looks like Sandford and son around here.

Stuff: Over the past two years we have been scrounging for material to complete our building projects; 40 pallets to build a lunging ring for the horses and 20, 55 gallon barrels for the greenhouse heatsink, Large fiberglass tubs for the fish in the greenhouse, buckets and baskets to use for the hydroponic/aquaculture system. Roofing metal, windows and metal to make a gutter system.

Have you ever left something out by the road instead of throwing it in the trash? We are some of those that stop and pick it up. Collecting the material has not been the issue, storage has. We have not organized. We have barrels and pallets and the other items scattered everywhere! A smarter team would have organized areas for everything and disseminate items as they were acquired. Now not only is Nana all sorts of bothered by the "mess" but we have lost track of what we have. I had gotten the pallet pile to forty several weeks ago, then yesterday I realized we had two more stacks of pallets in other places hidden behind other things. Barrels and windows were another overreach. I kept looking at the first stack (6) of double-hung windows found roadside as I collected more. Some went on the back trail, some up top where the greenhouse is going. We now have enough windows for the greenhouse sides: I mean we don't need any siding on the two sides of the greenhouse with enough left over for the barn. Not really a problem now that I think about it.

At this point, the front yard looks good and will be beautiful again if we can get the grass to grow. Back yard is now clean and organized except for the girls "outdoor kitchen" that they did not put away.

Brooder Pen:

Brooder Coop

We have the large laying hen pen that shares a fence with the meat bird pen. There was a 6ft x 4ft spot where the two pens meet. We put a front wall on and a little coop in. Last year we had thirteen poult turkeys. As we discussed in the predation post, the ravens had a meal. So, now we have ten chicks that just hatched and four 45 day old chicks in the primary brooder hutch. They are ready for fresh air and sunlight, but they must be protected. We had done nets in the past but that gets destroyed each fall/winter. Soccer net is difficult to get in place and a misery to take down when it is all tangled and ripped. Sarah Decided that a wood roof would put an end to our cover concerns. With the mill, we have piles of first cut boards. We kept the live edges and placed them with gaps big enough for sun and rain to get through but close enough to keep out the predators. Scraps of chicken wire were put up to fully enclose it.

Chicken wire is nearly invisible on our brooder pen