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Flat River Farms Blog
Well, it's been a long winter here, with an unusual amount of snowfall. We've gotten about 40 inches snow total over the winter, in an area where 5 to 6 inches a year is about average.
The rabbits survived the winter inside and we've started breeding again. Hopefully new babies will arrive in the next few weeks. Note the hopeful part! My breeder is a first timer. So we're hopeful I kept the right pair.
The ducks survived the winter on the pond and seemed to thrive in the snow.
The few hens and Mr. Lincoln seemed to do real well after they were left alone to roam and find their own shelter. They took up in the summer house for the rabbits and have made nests out of the rabbit hutches. :)
With the neighbors kvetching about all the animals, our stock is down to a minimum. Enough to feed us a few times a week and that's about all we can keep anymore and keep the city folks that have surrounded me quiet.
I miss the livestock. So do the kids, but for different reason! Now I talk to them and not the animals. LOL
We've spent the winter working on the interior of the house and trying to figure out how to balance an unbalanced world. Many ideas have been tossed around, many of them discarded as to what the future holds for Flat River Farms.
We've got many projects in the works, including medicinals, tintures, teas and the sale of soaps, seeds, herbs and flowers. The gardening and growing appears to be where God is leading us. I will of course continue to work and write for the online publications that I have invested so much time into.
We're about 2 weeks away from putting the garden peas in, and starting the gardening season. We'll be focusing on seed production, canning and cultivating the herb beds for the production of medicines in the coming years.
We'll also start dividing the daylilies into marketable 'groups' for the year and the development of new beds for new or thriving varieties.
We'll be doing new pictures for the online catalog and creating a new product list soon and converting this site to a more friendly format in the coming months and we hope you'll hang around for the changes.
Till next time.....
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