1000 words

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this is my attempt at catching you up with all that we have been doing over the past couple of months - with a picture montage. 

Here's Orrin hoeing up weeds around our newly planted raspberry plants.
This is in the center of the garden, roughly.

This is what the ground looked like prior to picking rocks and making garden beds.

And then the lovely garden bed, post-rock removal, hoeing, raking, and sweating.

One of the movable chicken pens Orrin has made recently. This one houses the meat birds.
And at the time of the picture, Gigi the Cow had been rotated into the same paddock area as the chickens.

Taken from the middle of the garden, a view of the downhill garden beds and our new rhubarb patch.

From the downhill edge of the garden, looking upwards towards all the beds.
Garlic in the foreground.

Lovely Caribe potatoes, our second harvest of the year. We'd have let them percolate a little longer, but we wanted to clear them out of the greenhouse to make more room for the tomatoes to grow.
 

Our 15 heritage chicks; about 4 weeks old. They will start laying in 5 months or so.
This is the brooder that Orrin built. It's the intermediary between the very fresh chicks and getting them out onto green grass.

Oliver catches one of the heritage chicks to pet. We just moved them into their outdoor grass coop today.

Oliver and the 3 pigs. Hard to tell that they're getting big, but they are! The first one will likely become pork around the end of the month.

The biggest pig, and so he'll be the first to go.

The A-frame coop we built for our two full-size laying hens.

And during all this busy-ness, Oliver and I had a birthday. Here we are, after licking the bowl of frosting clean, from the cake that Orrin made us.