Animales de Miercoles

This innocent looking creature scratched my arm this morning after a flight of fancy over the picket fence and into the neat rows of collards. And then she pecked the iPhone as I took the picture at the bottom of this post. May I not contract chicken scratch fever. Pray for me.

Ashes to ashes and compost to compost

It is amazing what a little mushroom compost can do. Here we have two different kinds of mushrooms flourishing on the Oaktown Farm. One in fact, is it's own little sub-forest beneath the broccoli forest.



And the other is simply a mushroom beast.



I wonder if these are edible, but am guessing not. Although there was a third variety in the chicken run that the girls feasted on and as I've said before, they lived to tell the tale. I don't think I will be making a red sauce with Oaktown Farm mushrooms anytime soon, but it sure is fun watching them thrive in the beds with all the rain we have had. In a few weeks I will turn them into the soil and let them go back from whence they came.

Happy New Year, mostly

The lack of posts has not been for lack of farm happenings, it's just that one of the farm's grandmothers broke her leg the day after Christmas and it has put a damper in our blog mojo.
But, we're back!



We have fava beans on the left there, with some chard on the right. Luckily a co-worker of Jennie's gave her some fava bean seeds and we got a good early start on these gals this year. We've had plenty of rain that has allowed us not to have to turn the hose on cept' to water the chickens.



That there is Gladys eyeing some weeds I am offering for a breakfast snack. Besides not seeming to enjoy the cooler Northern California weather, the chickens are all doing very well. We expect to get some eggs towards the end of the month. Maybe my birthday cake can be baked with Oaktown Farm eggs!

We have had enough rain this season so far to also start a little mushroom side project. Although we are not eating these, the chickens have and lived to tell the tale.