We are excited about spending time by the fire next week and hope you will all have a wonderful Christmas! We have been very blessed this year. The greenhouse is making growing and harvesting greens this winter much easier and more enjoyable! We are getting ready to make our planting schedule for this coming year and it’s very exciting! Winter is such a nice time to recoup and regroup! We will also be thawing a big turkey to enjoy on Christmas, along with some butternut squash pie and sweet potatoes. Oh and spinach is coming your way this week too! I love a spinach salad with some dried cranberries on top. The napa cabbage is awesome either cooked or raw, it makes nice wraps. I love to shred carrots and chop the napa with some nuts and dressing of choice for a nice slaw. If you add some cooked shredded chicken its a whole meal!
In the garden this week we have put the winter frost blanket on the strawberry plants. They had a make shift cover before, but now we have the proper one on. Those little babies are snug and warm (well as warm as they can be in 20 degrees!) The garlic is poking up and about 4 inches tall, looking very brave in the garden all alone! There are other veggies out there still, like the kale and cabbage, but they have blankets on and the garlic is the only thing uncovered. It will be fine and dandy all winter long. No wonder it’s so tough on illness, it’s one tough plant!
The dry dairy cows and beef cows will be coming “home” for winter soon. They have run out of grass in the pasture a few miles from here and the water supply is soon to freeze. That means moving some fence and setting up some winter hay feeding area for them. We have a new calf due January, brrr! Stay tuned for news about that. Ducklegs is the mama expecting. She also is coming home from the far pasture for us to take special care and prepare her for her labor.
We hope you enjoy all the farm goodies and have a wonderful Christmas!
Blessings,
The Bakers