Garden Update!

 This past week, Joshua has been working on the pool/garden area! After sheet mulching, growing his seedlings, and fixing up the fence to keep out the chickens, he has now planted the seedlings in the garden! Here is a picture of the finished product! 

 He planted flowers, herbs, and veggies. Hopefully we will be able to post pictures of larger plants in the future! 

 The Deans

Not-So-Secret Garden!

 Just a small update for this post! This past week, Joshua has been working hard to get the garden's brand new fence set up! He hasn't completely finished yet, but it's definitely starting to look like a great fence! 

 From inside the garden area. 

 An opening into the garden area.

 He should be finished up with it soon! Those pictures will hopefully be in better weather! ;)

 The Deans

 

R.I.P Plum Trees, Hello Plum Blossoms!

Good news and bad news today! Our plum trees have finally started growing plums! We got our bees at just the right time for this (we got them a week before the blossoms started growing), and they have done a really good job pollinating the blossoms! So good that we now have thousands of little plums on our trees! 

 One of the trees

 

 One of the little plum groups!

Hopefully we'll be able to go outside and just pick plums straight off the tree this summer! 

 With every piece of good news there occasionally is a piece of bad. Two of the plum trees we had died. One of the plum trees died from Black Knot Fungus and we don't know how the other died. The one that died from Black Knot Fungus had to be pruned down to the base because it had been overcome by the fungus. 

 

 The mystery-death-tree 

 Poor little tree stump. We are hoping it grows back next summer! 

 Update:

 We are finally beginning to tell with the not-so-chicks-anymore whether or not they are a rooster or a hen! These little guys are getting big fast! 

 

 That's it for today! Can't wait to see what God turns this land into! 

 The Deans

Fun in the Sun!

We had a great day playing in warm weather and the cool creek! Here are pictures of the great day! 

 Baby Will holding a bouquet of flowers that Erin picked. 

 

 The boys playing in the creek. 

 Sam Dean says "Cheese!" 

 

 Can you find Baby Will? :) 

 After a beautiful day of playing and splashing in the mud, we praise the Lord for blessing us with a beautiful farm! 

— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:7-8 ESV)

Updates

Here are some updated pictures of the farm and animals.

 We have the younger chickens out with the older now! 

 (Top: Before , Bottom: Today)

 The chickens have done their job in fertilizing the yard! The grass is amazing!

(  Top: Before , Bottom: Today)

 Patches has his own car port all to himself :) 

( Top: Before , Bottom: Today)

 The walk to the back of the propert is a whole lot prettier in the spring time! 

( Top: Before , Bottom: Today)

 The gazebo hasn't changed much, but it's still pretty to look at :)

 (Left: Before, Right: Today )

 The trees by the pool area are growing some leaves (it makes the pool area nicer too )

(  Top: Before , Bottom: Today)

( Top Two: Before , Bottom: Today )

 The Bees :)

 We got some more bunnies!

 And Joshua used the mulch we received and completed his sheet mulching! 

 That's all that's going on around the farm! We can't wait to show you guys the next update!