Today the boys helped me to make the lasagne garden for my hoop house. The soil is too soggy to much of anything else. I'm hoping the hoop house will give me a jump start on the season for veggie growing. We first put a layer of newspaper down and added a decent layer of peat moss on top of it. Then they added a think coat of goat manure and then a good layer of horse manure that has been composted well. This raised the area up about a foot. Tomorrow we'll add the plastic and I'll plunk in some seeds to get going.

The grass is greening up finally and the animals are very happy. Today, the cows were kicking it up and running around the pasture. I do find them very entertaining. I'm hoping to get a couple of them nice and filled out for a June appointment, if you know what I mean. No grain used here, pure grass-fed animals. The chickens are busy scratching looking for the first insects to dare to crawl out. I think they do a marvelous job keeping the bug population down around here. Now what to do about the flies. Yuck.