O my goodness, that a amazing day! so warm, its a outside day, I will work on the inside stuff later today, we slipped off the farm and had a breakfast date at our local sunday place, it was a bit to crowded for our taste, we ending up the busy corner insteed of our normal quiet tucked away booth, so we didn’t linger but it was still a great way to start the day..
Then we headed to the our favorite local fruit tree place and got a new pear tree
And then ended up with a new kind of gooseberry, current and blackberry for good measure..
Then we spotted 12 of these on the side of the road and ended up dropping off the plants and heading right back out to pick them to use in the horse agility course! Its the last weekend before the spring pickup in our neck of the woods so we have spent some of yesterday and today, getting anything that needs to hauled out to the end of the drive done.
We put both Brandy (horse) and Girl out on tie out, so they are my awesome redneck lawnmowers 🙂 We already got the pear tree in the ground already and will soon enough with the others.
Need to get this latest patch of garden plot finished up and planted out today, its going into new strawberry plant rows. also got one of pop-up greenhouses set up this weekend, so will be working on getting it filled up this week.. and ideally getting the second one set up as well.
And heads up, I butchered out a gilt yesterday, so the blog is about to get really heavy on pig butchering, pig recipes and all related area’s there..
Just another Day on the Farm 
wow you have been busy
yup, and that only got ya to 3 ish and we didn’t shut it down till 9:30pm
So, what variety of pear, current, black, and goose berries? Spill us the details please?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D'Anjou
Mmmmm… my favorite pear!
Is it as good for canning as i have read?
I couldn’t tell you. Mine never last long enough to get in the can! 😉
Is that the gooseberry bush your little friend is checking out, by any chance? TOO funny!: )
no, honk is trying to open the feed bag an sneak a snack..
LOL, what a sly bird!
We’ve got two varieties, one like your new Anjou and one that is supposedly a Bartlett, but looks more like the shape of this one here…
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Pear
Do you have Montmorency (pie cherry), plum or apples? Or do you do mostly wildcrafting? There was a really wonderful old orchard (circa early 1800’s) beside the farm when I was a kid.
Four kinds of cherry trees, two of the pie cherry’s and then all three of the saskatoon, western cherry trees, they are a mix of fresh, pie and canning/freezing..
the plums are fresh, jams, and a old one that is best for canning, all yellow plums
five kinds of apples, all bought, none of the above wild crafted.
we have a patch of wild red plums
have to look for the rest of the names tomorrow