Or at least the calendar says so. It was 15 degrees here this morning! We are still waiting for Neesa to kid… very hard to believe but she will kid when she is ready so what can we do….
We did actually have some very nice weather this past week with highs in the 60s so spring is really starting to get going. I have the mini-greenhouse ready for seed starting and picked up some addtional seeds from the Hudson Valley Seed Library at the farmer’s market today. I will have to prune the fruit trees this coming week also and get some dormant oil onto the apple tree. I hope to pick up some more material to build additional raised beds in the garden for the potato trials we are participating in this year. We will be growing three different varieties of organic potatoes as part of a program that NOFA-NY is conducting.
Our regular winter famer’s market season ended today in Poughkeepsie with the final Winter Sun Farms sponsered market. It was a great winter season and we look forward to next winter with the Winter Sun markets. We are not finished with winter markets though, we will be at the Rosendale community center on April 5, 2009 for their winter market. The regular market season will being the thrid weekend of May at Cold Spring and New Paltz… not far off at all.
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We are still waiting for more kids to be born. Poor Neesa looks about ready to pop and is so wide it is pretty funny. Her udder looks like it is beginning to fill so we may not be waiting too much longer. Neesa’s daughter Peaches is not letting on about when she may kid even though her due date is within a day of her mom’s. In the yearling barn Calypso is looking like she may not wait until the 18th to kid but she comes from a line of does that always keeps us guessing – LOL
The weather turned very warm over the weekend and it rained most of last night and this morning so the sheets of ice are pretty much gone and have been replaced by deep mud and standing water. It is a messy situation but it does mean that spring is here… afterall spring is mud season.
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A large amount of snow had been predicted for today and schools closed in anticipation but in the end we only got four inches. Not much snow to me but the kids were a bit confused by the stuff. They stayed inside until the snow stopped this afternoon and the sun peeked out. They ventured out and got cold little hooves and promptly went back inside. We still have three February kids in the house because one had an injured hoof. She is much better now but I can’t put her back outside untill the current bitter cold passes.
We need to get the kidding pen ready for the upcoming births. Neesa and Peaches are due this coming weekend and one of the yearlings around the 18th. I also discovered that all the wind we have had took down a tree at the northeast corner of the bottom pasture so we will be fixing that fence before the herd can go down the hill.
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