We got a huge donation of pine wood chips from PUD -1. We finally finished wood chipping our orchard path, and it looks a little bit like a boomerang. We've also been working on our two storage sheds that are next to the container (in the back). We are using the wood for the entire surrounding of the container, the bee path (we finished that too!), the front of our house, and getting rid of all the weeds we have since pine has a poison that plants don't like. That means we can't use it for our plants. The mound is slowly going away, and we need to keep coming up with ideas to use it for...
Our little worker bees are doing really well! Their honey will probably be fully ready to harvest and put into jars next Summer when we get back. Our fence will come up next week, so we can finally probably get chickens. The goats we are getting next year. Dad's working on welding a chicken tractor for the chickens. (A pen for chickens that you can move on wheels) This would be for fertilization and new grass to eat. I think we would get the layers before the broilers.
I have started a tiny tractor tire garden that was super hard to move. (Dad moved it somehow). I planted some bachelor buttons, amaranth, and a few other bee-friendly flowers. There might be some kind of slug that really likes the amaranth, because half of them were eaten! I have to manually water the garden since it is a long way from any of our water pumps. I am hoping that a heavy watering before travels will be enough to keep them alive!
We are also growing an herb area with basil, and more bachelor buttons (they're edible). There is not enough space with all of those gutter planters that we have, so we're going to have to install some more somewhere.
