Goals for 2023: While I don’t really like the long, dark hours and the cold of winter, I do get excited to be going through seed catalogs planning for next years garden and thinking about the next projects to take on around the farm…although my hubby is usually less enthusiastic to hear the honey-do list. lol Plans for 2023 include moving my greenhouse from our old property to where we live now, putting together a sun garden, putting up a grape arbor, and expanding the garden area. I plan on spending more time working with my horses and hope to finish fencing in the rest of the pasture.
I’m also working on taking my photography hobby to the next level by selling pictures, using filters to create fun and unique art for cards, calendars and other merch, downloadable items, and even custom pictures for people. The second picture here is an example of using the Pop Art filter. Click here to see more.
Farm news: 2022 was our third year here, the raspberry plants I put in the first year had a bumper crop this year, the fruit trees survived and are growing well, I’m looking forward to enjoying fresh fruit from our place just like I grew up with. I canned several batches of raspberry jam and salsa. The onions did extremely well this year.
Pop art filter
After the last two years in separate pens, the horses were happy with the portion of pasture we got fenced and being able to band together as a family. Thor, now a yearling, was gelded in August, and I was able to spend quality time just hanging out in the pasture with them while my grandkids were home with our daughter during her maternity leave this fall. We also had our first chicks hatch, it was amazing to see how wonderful mother hen was at nurturing her chicks instinctually when she and all our other chickens were bought as chicks and raised by me, they never were taught by a mama how to do it.