August 25, 2008.
Shalom!! YHWH's blessing to you all!! Summer has come and is nearly gone here already at Blessed Farm.
Summer is trying hard to make a fast track out of here already, about 3 weeks early this year. TERMITES are flying already!! I'd like to get some pics of some things we've been doing, some of our new projects, and of the progress we've made on our old ones that we kept working on during my recovery. I'll see about getting some new pics up over the next few weeks for you to enjoy.
I went through a spell where I had to take a break from many of my beloved projects, due to my health. The break was a good thing, and I've made much progress. I've still got a ways to go, but I am able to be active again, something that's very important to me. We will be keeping things simple, though, so as to not overwhelm me and possibly flare up the illness again. One thing, I am missing terribly, my fiber buns, and am aiming to have a few again, just for my enjoyment, with probably no more than a litter or two at most a year..
For those of you who are visiting us for the first time, we have a small homestead in Western Washington, on the beautiful Hood Canal. We raise a lot of our own food, culinary and medicinal herbs, and handcraft goat milk soaps and knit items from Kim's homespun yarns.
We focus on heritage, heirloom breeds and varieties of livestock and plants. We are raising Speckled Sussex, Buff Orpington chickens, and Muscovy and Pekin ducks, all for our meat and egg needs. We gave raising quail a whirl, but aren't sure yet if they are going to be 'our thing'. American Chinchilla and a pair of Standard Rex rabbits keep our freezer filled with meat for our dog, Loki, and the cats, and furs for warm, soft things to wear. Organic methods are used in raising most of our animals and gardens. Absolutely no use of hormones, antibiotics, or chemical pesticides are used in our food producing animals and gardens.
We often have surplus to offer for sale from our chickens, ducks, rabbits (live sales only), and gardens. We hope to soon be able to offer hatching eggs, too. I also have handspun, natural fiber yarns for sale, as well.
Western Washington
My farewell to my friend, Ash
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