Registration is underway for our fall Nature Preschool Program. This will be an all outdoor program for 3-5 year olds based on the Waldkindergarten programs in northern Europe. If you have any questions please contact us at sunnytruthfarm@gmail.com. Below is the flyer and feel free to spread the word.
Work is paying off in different ways
So we have been so busy with the summer garden and all the new animals that the website gets forgotten, shame. One small success is our butterfly garden between the house and the main garden. Despite the lack of rain it is in full bloom right now and we have been inspired. More will be popping up around the property. More post soon on all the other things going on. Don't forget our outdoor preschool has registration going on right now. It is going to be a great learning experience for the kids as well as a great fun.
Here they are, the ducklings...
Baby ducks are pretty darn cute. I must admit. Here is a video taken within the first hour of arriving. Drink, drink, drink and eat, eat, eat. As great as they are now, it is very exciting to think about getting duck eggs this fall. If you want to get on our mailing list we will be selling chicken and duck eggs starting this fall. We will be doing a weekly meetup in Asheville and Mars Hill. Here is the video. To get on the mailing list email us at sunnytruthfarm@gmail.com
Busy, Busy, Busy....Chicks, Chicks, and Ducklings (updated)
So busy with chicks hatching (more than expected), chicks being delivered (why did we do this), and ducklings being delivered. We decided to take two days worth of eggs and put them in the incubator and see what happened. We never checked for fertility and just thought of it as a test run for the incubator since we had only tried the turkey egg. Well 19 days later we had 19 chicks hatching out of 25 eggs put in. We candled the other 6 and 3 were not fertile and the rest just never fully developed. Not bad. Good job hens and roosters. Most of these are muts as the roosters are Marans and there are only 2 Maran hens, the rest are New Hampshire and Rhode Island Reds and Barred Rocks. Here are some pictures and a video. Have also posted pictures of the ducklings and chicks that we just got in today. Pretty hardy creatures to survive the trip in the mail, a human baby wouldn't.
It is so wild how quickly they go from weak looking creature to fluffy little chick, in a day! Below is the video. We are still registering for summer camp and we have started taking registration for our Nature Preschool.
Rain Barrel installed on the Chicken Coop
We finally got the gutter system and rain barrel installed on the mobile chicken coop. This is making life easier since we no longer have to haul water to wherever we have the coop on the property, we just fill up right there. Things are moving along here on the farm as we get ready for summer season. Don't forget about Summer Camp and our fall Nature Preschool!
Nature Preschool, our Waldkindergarten program...
Here is a good article talking about the type of preschool that we will be offering this fall. I've been wanting to run something like this for many years and things are finally coming together to make it reality. Hope you will come and join us. Click on the Nature Preschool link under Programs to read more about what we will be doing.
May 5 and it is chilly and wet...
So we made it to May and our weather for 2016 here has been winter, to summer, to spring, back to winter today. Yes it may be chilly here but it is cold on the high mountains around us. Here are some pictures below to show it. Both are Mount Mitchell. Here is the link http://nchighpeaks.org/Webcams So while we work in the gardens and prep for summer camp programs, winter is reminding us that it will soon return.
Spring garden
So despite the all the hard freezes in early April things are coming along nicely in our garden beds. Arugula, Spinach, Cabbage, Peas, Leeks, Lettuce, and most importantly Strawberries are doing great. This is our first full spring growing and things are going well. Here are some pics.
Sometimes you have to stop and enjoy your surroundings
Sometimes we get so busy we forget to look around and take in all the wonderful things that surround us. Toddlers do help sometimes in seeing the small things that are amazing. Our kids found this newly emerged Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly yesterday, which I would have totally missed as I was thinking about things that needed to get done while we walked back to the house. Also there are some lovely spring wildflowers out right now. So I am going to try to be more in the here and now and take in what is around me, because there is a lot of wonderful things that could be missed otherwise. Don't forget about our Summer Camp and our Nature Preschool programs. Registration is going on right now.
Been working so hard we forgot to post...
It is the busy season. Between putting in new garden beds and protecting last years strawberries from the big freezes we have been going full tilt. Here are some pictures from what has been going on. Also don't forget about Summer Camp registration!!!
