A wet May turns into a hot June

Ash thinks he saw some swallowtail caterpillars on the fennel today... so exciting to see the increasing diversity!! We have created a lot more habitat a lot more quickly than I thought we would. We have seen a lot of cottontail bunnies and a lot of black snakes. I'd like to see more birds. I know that a fresh water source is important for birds so I'm hoping to get a bird bath soon.

It has been unseasonably hot in June, following an unseasonably wet May. It has been in the upper 90's all last week and this week! It's still getting down to the 60's at night.

The chickens are growing very fast! They now have wing AND tail feathers, and are constantly trying to fly. We have an outdoor play area for them, which is basically a dog crate with the bottom taken out of it. We let the dog spend as much time as we can around the chickens to further train him to be gentle with them (he always has in the past, but you can see he is tempted!).







At least one of the the apple trees are producing again!



The corn is doing well and the beans have sprouted, so that's two of the three sisters. Hopefully the third sister, pumpkins, will go in tomorrow.



The sun chokes seem VERY happy where we've put them.



And a friend brought us some trees and plants... the small plants are mostly medicinals (marshmallow, thistle, umcka, fennel, gynostemma, hyssop, and I can't remember the others). We got an apricot tree and three cherry trees!



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