For Giving Tuesday, consider making a donation to TrueLove Seeds to purchase farmland.
(The need for permanent farmland for farmers is chronic and complex in Pennsylvania -- and badly needed. Questions? Ask me! It is a blessing beyond words that we own the land for Hill Creek Farm. Many of the vegetable farmers here in Chester County are not so fortunate. That needs to change)
"All the Garlic In The Barn 2022" video
When you only do one video a year, it probably wobbles a bit.
That said, here is the annual video of 6 varieties of garlic, 1/4 acre of harvest, gathered in the barn.
Fresh garlic of 4 varieties (Mt Zemo, German Extra Hardy, Uzbekistan and Georgia Fire) available now. Cured garlic available in 2 weeks.
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Frank plows for the garlic harvest 2022
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Frank takes down the second sunn hemp cover crop with the sickle bar on the BCS
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Video Practice: Marian walks below the camera while the chicks try to catch a breeze at the top of the wood pile.
Be careful today: Heat Advisory and Flash Flood Advisory for the day. Chickens get cold whey and ice at noon. Do the same!
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Video Practice: Breakfast in the barnyard where the chicks are learning their place.
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2021 "All The Garlic Is In The Barn" annual video, with a guest appearance by Nelly.
9 varieties, 1/4 acre, a little under 9K heads after sales and munching!
This is the first year I have done the video. Need more practice; luckily, the baby chicks are still cute! Tomorrow!
Need garlic? We have it!
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Video Practice of the Day: First Japanese Beetle Snack of the year!
Chickens loves bugs and there are no better tasting bugs (to a chicken) than Japanese Beetles! The eggs always taste better during Japanese Beetle Season.
We catch the beetles in scent traps, then empty the traps into a bucket of water with vegetable oil to keep the bugs from flying away. As you can see, it's a snack the chickens really enjoy!
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Today's Chick Video Practice: Giselle and her 2 chicks.
These chicks are a week younger than Marian's so they are still in the coop. Giselle is also a very protective mother so can't get too close yet!
Happy 4th!
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Video Practice of the Day: Baby Chick Jungle-Jym with Photobomb by Talia.
This is Marian and her week old chicks. Giselle just hatched a grey chick with 3 eggs left to hatch so hopefully, by the time these chicks are laying, I will be a Video Master!😉
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Video practice of the day: In which Marian tries to interest her chicks in the sand (needed for their gizzards to process their food!) but mostly becomes about Smooth Sister and Greystoke who care about their gizzards because the kids say "Eh, sand. Chick crumble is better tasting!"
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Marian and her chicks, Take 2
Marian shows her chicks that whey is good.
Thanks to @alioct24 for donating the whey from cheesemaking.
I am horrible at video making but @seedkeeping wants farm videos for the TrueLove Seeds website so figure I should practice with the chicks
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Frank plows for jalapenos for @vesta_bbq
(Working on my video skills)
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