Hugelkultur and a new puppy!

Part-time homesteading and vacations looks an awful lot like more work, but Peter and I are enjoying our highly anticipated spring break week together at the homestead.

Today we built a Hugelkultur for our remaining potatoes...we had 50 pounds to plant and ran out of room in the raised beds. So, we have soooo many potatoes and will need volunteers to help us eat them all this fall!

BTW, hugelkultur is a form of gardening that Peter stumbled into that uses dead wood (which we have in abundance) and garden on top of that! Great use of a plentiful resource!

Got our tomatoes and peppers into our little greenhouse. Really excited about the varieties we have growing this year!

I wallpapered the chicken coop with a sensible funky floral-patterned paper that will make clean up behind the nesting boxes even easier! Tomorrow I will paint the other walls.

We hung the Nordic Star Barn Quilt on our unfinished chicken fortress fence. I may have to make another!

And we have a dog! Meet Maggie...

She is 5 months old and probably the best puppy ever! Lab/hound/awesome mix!