I decided to combine the wonderful Independence Day Challange with the once a month garden update for my monday’s main posts. Going to also add links to blog I read that are doing this challange, if anyone else who read’s me is going to join, please let me know in the comments and I will link you in as well! Thisoldnewhouse I will do my best to direct link to the weekly posts if possable.

Plant something: Celery end for regrowth, Trays of wheat for sprouts

Harvest something: Everything counts – Eggs, Sheep Milk, Small Critter butcher day

Preserve something: Canned Lamb, Rabbit, Chicken, Duck, Also canned Dried Beans, Dried Potatos and orange peels

Waste not: Composting from the house, the barns, Composting the feathers for future garden use, recycle the butcher extras

Want Not: Good week for this, really have not shopped other then to have gotten a new large black boar

Eat the Food: See Food Storage Fridays Reports

Build community food systems: connected with the large black breeder in our local 100 mile area, also meet a fellow farmer about 20 min away, they raise pasture pork, ducks along with greens.

Skill up: Working Hides, Knitting, Building a manure hot box for early spring planting, learning more skills in regards to reading pig body lang, and body stucture on a litter of 3 day old piglets