2016 Meat Birds

This year the meat birds received a new house!  After hours of grueling work, the new and improved chicken tractor was finally completed.  It remained outside of the field, in the yard this year, out of fear the goats or cows might destroy the tractor minutes after it was completed.  Eric processed the birds yesterday.  This was a week earlier than last year, so we had more reasonable sized chickens (4-5 pounds) compared to last years 6-7 pound giants.  He continues to improve his butchering skills and was able to process each chicken in under 3 minutes!  We processed a total of 24 chickens this year.

A fresh chicken dinner awaits any Vermont visitors!

Ringo + water = love.

This is Ringo's evening routine while we fill his water bucket from the hose.  The cow sure does love water.

Fresh Produce

My favorite thing of this time of year is the constant flow of fresh produce from the garden.  The zucchini's are exploding and we're getting berries galore! 
 
 

The pumpkin plants continue to impress...this years harvest will be epic for sure!

New to the garden this year is the start of our wildflower garden.  Each year we hope to expand it a little more until we have an entire garden bed bursting with color.

George's new pillow.