Mennagerie farm is slowly coming back!

When we moved out here into the country, we dubbed our little plot of land "Mennagerie Farm", a mix between our last name and the word menagerie.

The name fit well; for the first two years we had all sorts of animals: 3 alpacas, 5-7 dairy goats, 2 horses, who knows how many chickens, 3 geese, 4 ducks, 4 guinea birds, 21 rabbits, a dog, too many cats, and there were always the odd reptiles and orphaned birds that I kept in the barn. ;D

Within the year though, we sold every animal, except for the chickens, a cat (which we are still trying to re home!) and our silly dog.

But now, as I look around, I can see that our farm is very slowly building up once more.

We just got our 33'x35' vegetable garden in and my dad surprised me the other day by tilling me a 20' herb garden!!

I have been wanting an herb garden for a while now, but I didn't think it would happen this year so I contented myself with a little pot on the back deck for this year's "herb garden". I am so excited to start putting my herbs in and caring for my little plot. :D

And next year I might get to have another garden, specifically for the animals.

As another piece of news, although I can't decide if it's good news or bad news, is that we are getting some goats sometime soon; possibly sometime this week. No dairy goats this time, instead we will just be borrowing two wethers from some friends, to keep our pasture down.

And we all still dream of having our own milk cow....Someday....

So, block by block, ever so slowly, Mennagerie farm is slowly becoming a beautiful place for friends and family.....