Farming

This is a list of a few of the things that I hope to do at Krooked Pine Farm.  A lot of it is very ambitious.    I know there is a difference in wants and needs.  What I want to do and what I need to do first are usually two different things.  I want to have a garden that is large enough to produce most of the food that we will use, along with an herb garden for both culinary and medicinal specimens.  Also,  I want to have a small barn in which to house our future tenants of nigerian dwarf goats and a coop for the chickens I want to have. I have been looking for a long time at the Delaware breed of chickens.  In doing my research, they just seem to be what I am looking for.  I have not found anyone so far in the area of home that has had any dealing with them.  But there are several farms in the area that have the Nigerian dwarf goats.  A couple of them seem to be very friendly and willing to help a novice learn how to handle and work with them.  I am also interested in the heritage breed of pigs called the American Guinea hog.  They are smaller and are very hairy.  They seem to be very difficult to find. But whether or not we get any pigs will depend on a lot of factors. Those factor are mostly, figuring out what all I am going to be capable of doing by myself each day as My Loving other half will probably have an outside job. 
     My loving other half is wanting to start a blacksmith shop along with having his air cooled VW shop to work on his trike and hopefully, we will have another bus. Sorry, we are not hippies and far from that lifestyle.  But we do love the VW buses and you would be surprised at how much room there is in one and how comfortable they are.  We did have one but life required us to sell it and we have missed it very much ever since.   The bus we had was a 1971 model that had a huge sliding sunroof.  It had a luggage rack on the back half.  We made several trips to the Smokies in it going to "bug shows" and actually won a trophy for it.  It was great winning, even if it was, "vehicle in most need of restoration".  LOL.  My thoughts on having another bus were that it would be great in taking excess vegetables, if we have them, to the farmer's market or to the flea market. 
     Bear with me as I am learning how to use all the blog buttons.  I still don't know how to download pictures to the blog.  I have many of our new home and property and will put them up soon.  A soon as I figure out how. 
    We just left Indiana and entered Illinois, headed west to California again.  After this turnaround, we are going home for 15 days.  With God's help, we will get our carpet and vinyl put down.  And hopefully, get our power hooked up on this trip home.   We are planning, that in October, when we come home, to set out our garden space, till in some chicken litter that we found from a chicken farm nearby.  Then, we will either cover crop it or mulch it to let it rest til next spring.  If needed it will be ready if we happen to be off the road next year instead of the next. 
     Well, thanks for jumping around with me today.  Lady Hawke