Changes in the raised beds..

We've got big new plans for the raised beds this year! We're moving all of the vegetables down to the big garden in the field and converting the beds to perennials. The first bed will be next year's garlic bed (instead growing them in the back flower garden), then asparagus (moving it out of the back flower garden), then low bush (and two mid-bush) blueberries, then cranberries, and finally strawberries. I recently cleaned out the hallway and one of the goat stalls in the barn and mulched the aisles and fertilized what will be the cranberry bed. I'm also going to take all of the soil out of the strawberry bed and compost it for a few years since it's most recently had peppers and tomatoes in it and then bring in new soil, compost, and composted goat manure.

Also, we've settled on a site for our new chicken coop, it's going to be in the back "courtyard" to the side of the clump of maples. We're finalizing coop plans and getting materials ordered for construction. We're hoping to have a very nice home in place for our 12 Dominique pullets and 1 Dominique cockerel by the time they arrive!

Freshly mulched beds.

Bed with compost awaiting new cranberry plants.

Me, Max, Rox and the goats in the (partially) clean barn.

Future home of our new chicken coop.