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[michickenwrangler]

Remember to post pics of your goats when you get them, Farmer Chick

Riverdale Roger, how does sq. foot gardening work for you? My mother lives in Saline on a subdivision lot and has been thinking of doing it. DO you get pretty good yields?

 

[Riverdale]

Remember to post pics of your goats when you get them, Farmer Chick

Riverdale Roger, how does sq. foot gardening work for you? My mother lives in Saline on a subdivision lot and has been thinking of doing it. DO you get pretty good yields?

We have 6 4'x4', 4 2'x4' and 1 4'x6'. Our cukes, peas and beans (we run pole beans rather than bush) have a trellis to climb.

Our yeilds are pretty good for the amount of garden we have. We usually have more lettuce and spinach than we can handle

One of the advantages of sq ft is it is easy to cover, and that means the garden can be gotten in earlier (radishes, peas and onions in on Good Friday).

We also plant tighter than Mel (Bartholomew) reccomends (about 2/3 of his spacing), but then again, we have a good sized compost pile and lots of pohh to put them every year.

Lil_Miss_Farmer_Chick, I grew up in Boyne City, and my cousin lives just off M-32 west of Larry's Bar. His kids are pretty active in the Antrim/Otsego Co 4-H

Roger

 

[Lil_Miss_Farmer_Chick]

It is a small world we live in.

I'm so happy to meet people with the same interest and it's even better when they live close by.

Yay! We leave in the wee hours of the morning to pick up the goats. I am so excited.

I will post pics as soon as possible.

Have a fabulous weekend everyone!

 

[michickenwrangler]

We made it back!

Izzie and I had a very good weekend ... we won!!

She did great, I didn't have to tough my heels to her until we had gone 20 miles, this in all the heat and humidity!

Some riders saw a black bear, we didn't, but we did see the tracks.

When I went up in 2008, there were Bigfoot hunters aka "squatchers" looking for sasquatches up in the Hiawatha Nat'l Forest. We didn't see any this time (squatchers nor sasquatches )


Farmer Chick! Let's see dem goats, eh? (sorry! spent too much time in da U.P.)

 

[Lil_Miss_Farmer_Chick]

Wow, it's been a crazy two weeks! We went down to pick up the kinders (Thank you Lisa and Kelsee) at KinderKorner. Their farm is beautiful. They have a wonderful selection of goats and chickens.

Then we went to NH to visit family. We had a great time!

Here is my first try on posting pics so I hope it works.

Photo #1 Left to Right Onyx, Jingle Belle, Thurston, and Minnie

Photo #2 Thurston

Photo # 3 Jingle Belle

Photo # 4 Onyx, Minnie, Thruston, Jingle Belle

I love them so much already.

 

[michickenwrangler]

Aww!!!

How cute!!

I like the little chamoisee (dun colored) ones!

You must be having a blast with them!

OK, how's mid-July sound for you for a visit? DH wants to get some cherries and we all want to make a trip to Cherry St. Market. My mother may tag along too. We're thinking maybe a Thursday.

How's that sound? My daughter would love seeing the goats.

 

[Lil_Miss_Farmer_Chick]

OMG MCW,
I just realized that I never responded. It's been so busy here with all the animals that I haven't been on here in a while. Yikes, I'm so sorry. Anytime in July would be great. I am home most days. Cherry festival is this coming week, we don't go, but we sure see the traffic heading to it. I was over to cherry street the other day looking at plants, I wish I had a bigger wallet.
I love the goats so much. They are such characters. They love hanging out with the chickens.

I saw your wonderful pics of your horse trail ride. It looked so beautiful up there. I'm glad you had a great time. Just PM me when you think you'll head up this way, and I'll make sure I'm home.

 

[michickenwrangler]

It's OK, Farmer_Chick, I just assumed you were busy with your goats

I had another endurance ride last weekend, took 2nd this time. It was in your neck of the woods 2, about 8 miles north of M-42 at the Hopkins Creek trail head.

I'll shoot you a PM, probably in the next week or 2

 

[caroln62]

Hi all,
I dont have time to read the whole thread right now but I am in SW MI I just joined this forum.
I am looking at some land to start a small homestead. Looking forward to meeting all the Michiganders

Carol

 

[Lil_Miss_Farmer_Chick]

Welcome Carol

BYH is a great place for finding information and connecting with new friends who share the same passions! Homesteading is a labor of love and so is keeping animals, Enjoy!

MCW, looking forward to it. Way go , can't wait to see the pics!

edited for spelling.