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!
Plant something: Pea’s, Pumpkin seeds, Onions, potato’s
Harvest something: Everything counts – Sprouts, Eggs, Milk, greens, onion greens
Preserve something: Made Crackers that will store a month in a glass jar, dryed potato’s, canned baked beans, confited duck legs, corned duck breasts and a whole leg of lamb
Waste not: made bone stock, picked feathers for later use as stuffing for bedding, critter compost, check and rotate stock
Want Not: 7 Spending days out of 27 this month so far, I am not sure how to count the pre-payed fee for my seminar, I eat breakfast at home, brought water and snacks, I did get both snacks and lunch provided with the day long seminar and I had supper at home, I didn’t spend a dime extra but I did pay for the day at the seminar a month plus ago to get the extra early-bird savings on cost. I’m open on how to fit that in?
Eat the Food: See Food Storage Fridays Reports Feb 24th day report, other then hubby going for subway on sunday at his writers seminar with the guys, everything eaten this week has been homemade.
Build community food systems: Went to the local (been on now for 30 years) local eco-farm seminar, took in key note, plus a seminar on building a farm website or e-store, a seminar on Small Sacel and home dydrations of fruits and vegetables, and a seminar on organic health for greater wellness and energy (for that time slot, I think I would have liked the abc of organic soil and plant fertiliy imputs a bit better) with networking and a organic local company’s and products trade show.
Skill up: Startings seeds, trying a new hemp bag sprouting idea, new books on cooking, gardening, information from the seminars, many free books or magazines from the trade show, which included a lot of information in regards to some of the latest info for things that can be applied to the farm, small critters or my cheese making.
So this is the end of the month, which means it time for my “how do your garden grow” from the Cheap, Fast and Good’s posts on How does your Garden
Running total for 2012- FarmGal-How does your garden grow.
Total output : Seeds- 146 dollars, One order for Fruits, Fruit Bushes 55 dollars and a second order of native fruiting bushes 166 dollars, Supplements for the garden and soil building etc 143 dollars
Impute’s : Sprouts $10 Greens $8
Output : $510
Impute 24.45
In the hole by 485.55 “Ouch!”
Just another Day on the Farm 
You amaze me. Seriously.