Some photos of our farm

Mom's chickens:  we now only have four.  We used to let them out and roam around but one got eaten by something (fox? coyote?) and so Mom & Dad made a chicken coop for them but a hawk got into the chicken coop and killed another one.  The chickens were flying at the hawk and pecking him!  They have had them almost a year now and they have been laying one egg per day.  Though now they are starting to slack off.  Maybe it is time for them to molt and stop laying.  We will be getting new poults in a month or so.

These next photos are of Pat using the flame weeder last weekend.  This week we came back to those same beds and tilled.  The soil there is the best-looking of any soil in the garden so far.  The flame weeder killed off the top growth while keeping the roots in the ground to decompose, so they are easy to work through and provide some organic matter.  The second photo here shows what the weeds look like after you pass over them with the flame.  We planted potatoes there this weekend (50' of French fingerlings and 150' of reds).