Some more Farm projects planned for this summer...

Rosie is a Belgian work horse

One of the projects we want to work on this summer is getting our draft mare trained to pull our carriage. We already started her harness training last year, but didn't work her all winter because of the bad weather. The time is ripe for the next phase of her training. She is very sweet and trainable. She is quiet and responsive to positive reinforcements, strong and willing. Her name is Rosie. We also have two young colts, a three and a four year old, who are ready to start, they are Arabians.

Another project we plan for this summer is building a cob pizza oven. We love pizza, and our cheese specialty is mozzarella...a big wood fired pizza oven just makes sense doesn't it? To that end we have already got a big pile of clay, sand, and a piece of expanded diamond lath steel to sift the soil with and a bunch of rice straw, tarps etc., the project is all ready to go, we hope for lots of volunteers who want to help, we already have a few. We've never built anything substancial with cob, but have avidly researched the project and are ready to jump in and get muddy with both feet, on this project. My mouth waters at the thought of wood fired pizza, made with our own cheeses and sausages, organic home grown tomatoes, mushrooms and herbs, garlic, basil, oregano, savory and the like. Here is a link to the prototype we would like to build, with our own variations. We are thinking sometime mid June for getting it started.

yum, pizza!

Then there is the indoor market we are hoping to open around July 4th. We have contracted with a carpenter friend to build the next phase of this. We already have a big metal building/shop. Half of it is to become our future market, "God willing and the creek don't rise". It would be nice to get the pizza oven ready about the same time as we finish the market. We have to build a wall, install french doors and lay a laminate floor, before we can open. It's going to be nice. Out side of the market we will have an awning that will provide shade to the front.

The metal building for the market