the harvest begins

The new Freedom Rangers

With meals coming in from the gardens every day, all that spring work is very rewarding. It is very satisfying for us to sit down to a full farm meal.

raspberries for dessert 

Noah tops basil for pesto 

Zucchini is here in full zuc glory. I'm not sure why but Noah always feels a need to plant out fifteen or twenty zucchini plants, good thing it's early in the season, we are still enjoying eating lots and friends are eager to take it away Any favorite recipes or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Please leave them in a comment form for everyone to see as I'm sure I'm not the only one with surplus. I've already thought of feeding them to the chickens and cows. 

We moved most of the flock back down the road as the rain has kept the grass growing.
We had to leave poor ,Brother, behind he is getting to big to be with the other ewes and was not happy.  Old William  is with him for company and he took about at day to settle down. Here he is crying until hoarse. It really pays to be a ewe around here. 

And what goes better with lamb than garlic. Noah pulled the first of our garlic last week. Last September CBC radio interviewed a garlic farmer from Denman Island he said to plant your garlic on the full moon at midnight fully naked to get a good garlic crop. Noah and Lyra planted it at about ten at night last October full moon ,fully clothed, it seemed to work out just fine. I do tease Noah about how much better it would be doing if he had planted it naked. All he says is it's to cold in October.

keeping the vampires out of the feed room