Here's what's happening on the farm today:
Time to save the raised bed; we had a small catastrophe this weekend. Our elevated raised bed collapsed in the middle after succumbing to the heavy rain load we have received these last forty days. Today is rescue day. I am going to attempt to move large quantities of plants, with their respective dirt clumps, into temporary raised beds to finish growing them off. I'll be using Rubbermaid long, flat totes as surrogate beds for this tactile exchange. Since these seedlings are our spring plants, I need to finish growing them and get them harvested. The plants include Baby Bok Choy, a couple of types of lettuces, and Mizuna. They will be done as soon as we role into warmer weather, which we hope starts consistently showing up this week!
Time to order fencing. The baby chicks are growing up fast, and will need their "coop" shortly. As much fun as we've had watching them indoors in their brooding box, we'll eventually have to move them outdoors, unless Sherry changes her mind and allows them as pets downstairs. Since that's not likely, the plan is to let them roost in one of our smaller barns and use electric fencing to keep the predators out.
It's a busy day here on the swamp farm!