Missing Willow Farm

Lambs in the morning sun.

We sampled these at dinner last night and they were crunchy, sweet and delicious!  We also have kohlrabi, spinach, cilantro and a little buttercrunch lettuce ready to harvest.  It’s time to plant more carrots and some other cool winter veggies in the raised beds.  The potatoes are already in and mulched over.  So many potatoes…

Plowing of our tiny potato patch is complete.  Gardening season has officially begun.

Our outdoor TV has been hung for the season, the cauldron is lit and dinner is served.  We actually watched the season finale of  Walking Dead from our hot tub on Sunday.  🙂

It’s how you tell if a lamb is getting milk when it nurses.  The tail swishes back and forth like crazy.

Calvin is the largest lamb we have, and the youngest.  Beatrice sure does grow them big.

Our microgreens are going to be served tonight at a James Beard Celebrity Chef dinner.   They are using our logo on the website.

http://www.celebritycheftour.com/events/The-Palisades-Restaurant-2014.html

We’ve just had four beautiful inches of snow here.  It should be the last snow of the season, we have a gorgeous weather outlook in our forecast.  The outdoor TV will go back up on the back deck tomorrow, and outdoor dining season will officially begin.  I think we’re all set.

Our live trap has captured a few possums and raccoons both inside and outside our chicken barn this year.  Most recently, it caught a neighborhood stray cat who was quite happy to be released.  Just last week, we captured something that literally chewed it’s way through the metal bars of one of these traps and escaped.  What the heck does that??  I’m not sure I want to meet it.

We brought a Cowboy Cauldron home with us from our trip to the Charleston Food and Wine Festival,  it was quite the experience.  A Top Chef Masters chef was the first person to cook on it and another one tried to sit in it with the coals still burning.  There may have been alcohol involved…

When we got it home, we realized we didn’t have the perfect spot for it.  Two trips to the home improvement store and we came up with this stone patio.  It’s our new favorite thing!

Our hens have started their regular laying routine now that it’s starting to warm up again and our customers are starting to call to place orders.  We’re currently sold out.  We’ve lost three of our ladies to predators this month.   The cage trap is set out behind the chicken barn where they’ve been trying to dig in.