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- Made our regular deliveries
- Bill picked up our bees so now we have 2 hives again
- Attended a farmers' market vendor training session
- Designed and taught a vision board/SMART goal setting class and craft for the women at the city jail
- Moved the chicks that we were brooding from the brooder coop to the regular coop now that they're awkward "teenagers" and ready to join the full flock
- Got the new farm banner that I ordered (the previous one had problems that I didn't notice before ordering - but I was able to use it on the farmhouse)
- Cilantro was coming in good so sold several bunches; it doesn't last long this time of year as the warmer weather makes it bolt fast
- Prepared for our 3rd annual open house (including cleaning the farmhouse, weeding and edging the flower and herb beds, making various signs and signup sheets)
- Set up a compost bin at the farmhouse for guests
- Ran an additional clothesline under the back deck on our house so I have more room to try clothes and linens
- Cleaned up the herb beds; removed the sage that died over the winter
- Planted herbs and flowers that I started over the winter (might have transplanted too soon)
- Transplanted some white daffodil bulbs that were growing in one of our fields
- Planted more gladiola bulbs at our house and the farmhouse
- Collected some wild plantain to put on tonight's pizza (and to use later)
Have a great weekend!
3 comments:
Hi Cherie, I've come over from Bill's blog to see if I can find out more about plantain. Is it related to bananas? What does it taste like? Please tell Bill I can't comment on his blog anymore, I'm not sure why.
You certainly had a full week. I know you had the open house, how did it go? I wanted to tell Bill, so I'll do it via you, you have a beautiful and graceful house. I wish you the best for the week to come.
Rhonda Jean, thanks for visiting my blog. This plantain is plantago major and not related to the plantain that has banana-type fruit. I've read that the leaves can be bitter. I tried to harvest the younger, smaller leaves to avoid that. I read that it has mild mushroom flavor and, when I tried one of the small leaves raw, it did have that taste. Apparently, this "weed" grows all over the US and is believed to have come from Eurasia. Here's a Mother Earth News article about plantain: http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/self-reliance/common-plantain-zm0z11zhun.aspx.
Our open house went well, despite the poor weather. I'll pass on the info to Bill.
Interesting article, Cherie. Thank you.
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