As a Blue Blood Super Moon rises over Leafhopper Farm, a stirring resonates across shadowed landscape; life is stirring all around. Seeds, who slept through winter (it’s usually short here), have begun awakening to lengthening days and warmer nights.
February:
-Finish stream buffer fence
-Inoculate logs
-Kidding (Brownie and Branwin)
-1st garden planting
-Select eggs for incubation
March:
-Acquire lambs
-2nd garden planting
-Native plant instillation
-Finish raised beds
-Chicks
April:
-Incubate duck eggs
-Establish WOOFers
-Tree isalnds
-Harvest spring greens/flowers
-Gardens, gardens, gardens
-Pigs?
May:
-Build duck and hen houses
-Set up pig rotations (tilling swales)
-4th planting of garden
-Continue spring harvest
June:
-Focused garden harvest
-Preservation of fresh food
-5th planting garden
July:
-6th planting gardens
-Harvest garlic
-Continue food preservation
-Fish for trout
August:
-Water gardens
-Harvest early apples
-Monitor animal systems
September:
-Earthworks Project
-Fall garden prep
-Harvest fruit
-Canning
October:
-Butchering
-CREP site prep
-Mushroom Spring
-Hunting Season
November:
-Final garden harvests
-Woodland maintenance
-Cover-crops down
December:
-Mulching projects
-Tree island replanting
-Log inoculation
EEC Forest Stewardship 