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Tiny Tune’s first egg

“Tiny Tune” hatched from a blue egg laid by a Cream Legbar hen mother via a Wyandotte rooster. Tune, a bantam hen, raised her, and the name “Tiny Tune” just stuck, even though she’s now three times the size of her hatching mama.

Cream Legbars lay light blue eggs and our Wyandottes lay light-medium brown eggs…voilà! Tune lays a light olive green/sage green egg! She’s the grey-ish hen in the center of the photo below.

1/17/2019 1 Comment

Annual Summary

We send an annual letter to our financial donors. This is a summary of what we accomplished in 2018:
Guest house

Mold remediation was a success!
New wheel-chair accessible bathroom & a widened doorway for one bedroom
New shower pan and bathtub installed
Electrical wiring repaired, new grounded outlets installed, light fixtures installed
New wall and attic insulation, new drywall, and fresh paint
Window frames rebuilt
New heat/ac installed and functioning (so pleasant to work in a warm building)

Farm

Four alpacas getting used to people so that they can be therapy animals
Three pigs helping us clear the pasture for the future vegetable garden
Guinea fowl and 30 chickens eating bugs, grass, and fertilizing
Lots of fence building and repair

Networking

Billy had a successful organic farming internship at the Rodale Institute in Pennsylvania, and April went to veteran-focused yoga instructor training with VETOGA in Washington, DC.
Billy volunteers weekly at a women’s maximum security prison where he is teaching based on the 12 Steps, and trauma & forgiveness.
Billy is connecting with men at a short-term “boot camp” rehab who may come to us afterward for a transition back to regular life.
We took a class on trauma & spirituality at Fuller Theological Seminary; one more class scheduled toward Billy’s doctorate in recovery.
We hosted a dozen casual guests: some to volunteer, and some who came for respite.

We’re glad to have you alongside us on this journey, and we look forward to what 2019 will bring.

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1/7/2019 0 Comments

A quick update

Because we found the window frames were icky when we gutted the house, Billy has rebuilt them using plain pine. With the new drywall and fresh coats of creamy white paint, the guest house is closer and closer to ready for our first residential guests. Up this week: scraping old linoleum glue and drywall debris off the concrete floor so that we can finish the flooring.

And meet our pigs! Pig One, which we’ve had for about 6 weeks and who is standing in their trough at the back, was bored and also not clearing out this area fast enough. (We’re using pigs instead of the borrowed tractor to clear some pasture for the vegetable garden.) Today we got Oreo Pig and Pale Pig, and they seem to like the pasture. Pig One wagged her curly tail and started playing; Oreo Pig joined in, but Pale Pig is a little skittish. We plan to move their 25’x25’ pen every three weeks so they can clear more. Then the Rooster Brothers will come through and scratch things up, with mulch and alpaca beans. Spring is coming!

We also borrowed a tractor to help put in cedar posts, harvested from our woods, to fence the garden.

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