Spring is slowly, slowly arriving

The tomatos and peppers starts are in full swing. I had a horrible accident yesterday, dropping an entire tray of 50 starts; of many different varieities. The plants were fine, but all the labels are mixed! Horrors! There were 17 different types on that tray! The good news is that for the most part, these can come out of spares; only for one, Taxi, was every single start on that tray. And it's not entirely too late to start more, we have 6 weeks before target date.

The no-mow project moved onto phase 2 yesterday also; the new fence is halfway across the back yard, with lots of new lush grass. The sheep are thrilled, voracious things. Turns out sheep are quite interested in tree leaves and flowers, they nibbled the flowering plum flowers they could reach and starting on what I think are elderberry leaves as soon as they got into the phase 2 area. I called the butcher today. The last thing we need is more meat in the freezer (anyone wanna buy half a sheep?) but the wethers are getting to that size and age... we still have't quite given up on Macy and Little Bo having lambs, but it's not looking good.

Chickens are off the garden, paths raked and mulched. Peas are coming up, the garlic and winter wheat look great; seeded the spring wheat, some onions are in, and the first broccolis. The early seeds in the uppper beds are up too.

Earth day is fast approaching, so there are a set of tasks to get ready for that. Plus I have decided that we should have a local seed exchange, a la Seed Savers Exchange. This idea has been well received by everyone I've talked too, perhaps this is a meaningful sustainability project that will work for me.