Ah, our farm book, its a black book, with ratty pages and many many notes, and bad drawings, but its were we keep notes like when the sheep were breed, when they had their little ones, how many lambs born, sex’s color and weights, is a mom a good birthing gal, does she have lots of milk, same with the goats, I have one goat that always has twins, but will only nurse the white babies, the color twin is rejected..for four years running, thankfully I also have a different momma goat that will always adopt the rejected baby, finally figured out to breed the white momma so she will only have white kids and now she will raise both..

When do the hens start laying and how many eggs per day, when do the ducks start laying, when to the different breeds go broody and who is sitting on how many eggs and does she sit until they hatch, I had one girl that sat four times in two years but refused to sit the last week needed, there were chicks in the eggs but she always left them and they got cold and died.. forgive me for qouting the red queen.. Off with her head! Bad hen..

Reports of where things are planted, where things grow wild, where the winds come in seasons, how much rain per year, how early can I push the cold frames, how late can push the cold frames and the hoop house in the fall or spring.

What kinds of plants did better and where, above you will see a copy of our messy drawing of the nursery garden for 2008.. below a section of the big garden, which is broken down into 12 area’s for when it comes to planning out.. you can see that by 2011, we have much neater program, we have legends with letters to explain what each planting is, we have color to show the plants vs the walk ways

So do you have a version of the farm book for your farm, or your garden or your yard? Do you keep track of when you have your first and last frosts each year, do you watch and carefully track your micro climates in your yard and use them to your advantage in the garden?