I decided to combine the wonderful Independence Day Challange with the once a month garden update for my monday’s main posts.
Plant something: Kale, onions
Harvest something: Everything counts – Sprouts, Eggs, Milk-
Preserve something: Yogurt, Soft Yogurt Cheese, dried some apple sauce into apple leather
Waste not: nothing new here, just regular composting etc.
Want Not: 2 spend day out of 12, all quiet on this front! Picked up metal garbage cans for more feed storage that is mice proof, its been the winter of the mice.
Eat the Food: Missed Food Storage Friday last week, however its march challange, so everything is coming from the pantry, freezers or the barnyard.
Build community food systems: Nothing.
Skill up: Worked the draft cow, Made cords for my living room curtains, curing meat
The garden is driving me a little crazy as the moment, it feels and even smell’s like spring but its really not, its to early to do many garden things I want to do. The new sump pump is working well, so that is a great thing indeed.
Just another Day on the Farm 
I understand your frustration with the warm weather feeling like we should be planting–but you’re right, we shouldn’t. I use a very dependable method of telling me when to plant. I look to see if a native tree (such as the mulberry in our area) is budding. If it’s budding, I can plant. If it’s not yet budding, ignore the itch to dig outside–no matter what my imported trees say. So far, no buds on the mulberries, so I’m just putting seeds in little pots inside to get the tender stuff started and continuing to grow sprouts (for me and my hens).
I know it’s probably a false spring but it sure feels real! None the less I won’t be planting anything out quite yet -no point in tempting fate.