Backyard Farming Connection Monthly Update
Backyard Farming Connection Monthly Update
Welcome to November and the official shift in the seasons for us here in NH. The growing season is officially wrapped up with the exception of a few things like our small cold frame garden and a few very hardy crops.
A Look Back at the Month
October is one of the months with the biggest changes on our homestead. We enter October with a garden still in full swing and end with the potential for snow and a garden that is rapidly dying back.
We’ve been busy cleaning out gardens (once we leave them for the birds for a few weeks) and doing some simple fall tasks. Here’s a list of what happened around here this October:
Did some work on the chicken coop and patched up some drafty areas
Built a new cold frame
Build a new goat feeder
Emptied out all our hoses and put away our watering systems
Cleaned out garden beds and put on a top dressing of compost where needed
Did some more seed collecting
Finished up harvesting
Planted Garlic
What’s Coming up in November on our Homestead?
As we enter the quieter time of year on our homestead, the kitchen continues to pick up. I’m looking forward to getting back in the swing of baking bread, yogurt and cheese.
We inevitably have a few more homesteading tasks to finish up outside and of course there are the daily tasks like
A Few Things you Might Find Helpful this Month
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Modern Homesteading Academy
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Raising Goats
Raising Baby Chicks
Building Soil Health
Making your Own Butter
Introduction to Seed Starting
Applying the Permaculture Principles
Understanding Square Foot Gardening
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Happy Homesteading,
Gretchen