Spring is here!

We feel it, do you? Salad greens are on the way (we've harvested small batches already over the last 4 weeks) and potatoes are going in the ground! Most of the early spring seeds have been planted, now we wait...for the weeds first of course! We expect to be harvesting larger quantities of spinach and salad greens by April 15th, so be sure to stop by on Saturday the 17th to get some. Jon and I are also excited to offer broiler chickens this year. We'll raise 100 in the first round and are taking orders now, send us an email and we'll get you an order form. The broilers will be pastured, organic and the breed will be "Red Broilers" or "K-22" which is similar to the no longer available "Freedom Ranger". The expected average weight will be approximately 4.5 lbs dressed out and we're offering them for $4.00/lb. That's much less than the competition! The turkeys are doing well, they've been laying eggs for about 28 days now as the first poult is due to hatch out tomorrow around 4pm. Honestly these birds aren't usually very timely, but we can hope, can't we? The incubator is full of eggs and we hope your tables will be full of turkeys this November, turkeys raised right here at Jordan Creek Farm. The average dress out weight should be a bit bigger as this flock will be slightly older than last year's. Those turkeys sure can be tricky, we've had relations with a neighbor who has tried his darnedest to obtain an equal number of hens and toms for a nice breeding stock, unfortunately he just keeps ending up with hens. Last week we traded him once more for what he thought was a hen, Jon said "Now you're sure, cause they can fool ya', you're sure the one you have is a hen?" "Yeah, I'm sure, this is the one." He replied. Yet, this morning Jon came in the house with three eggs from the hen that was supposed to be the tom that he DID NOT take. Well, maybe turkeys just aren't for him. They do seem to be causing him a lot of trouble.
Other news around here...we're three months into the Food to Bank On program and almost finished with a startling business plan for the farm, we'll be ready to deliver produce to the Ferndale food bank come June 1st.
It doesn't end at the food bank though, we're making our way to the Dalan Farm in Walla Walla, WA on the 27th to pick up some Large Black Hogs, a breeding pair to be specific, only 4 weeks old. We'll pack the whole family in the truck and head on down, this was the road trip we missed in January because our septic tank failed, but that's another story! Happy Gardening