Long Post Update...

Hello all!  Here is a Loooong post update of our life here.  We've been so bad this winter about posting I don't know if anyone really looks very often now!  :P

But for those of you that do here is an update... :)

The baby chicks are getting big...

and here's the big chickens

We got Joanna & Rose, the sheep (the two to the left) sheared early this week.  They were VERY grateful.

And Betty & Wilda, the goats, are growing and are as ornery as ever.

We are REALLY enjoying having cows!!!  It is sooooo much fun milking...

and the milk is GREAT!

The Corn Maze Work season has officially started so we have been VERY busy around here.

Praise the Lord for strawberries!  We are getting an abundance this year...

and the raspberries are coming too.

I FINALLY got the garden in, very late... I'm so embarrassed!

We are trying raised beds.  We didn't get the raised part done but maybe next year.

And this was an unexpected blessing!  (At least that's what Mom and Caleb call it, the rest of us aren't sure what to call it yet.  Maybe a lumber yard?!  ;)   There was a foreclosure or something on a factory near our church and Caleb got these for free!  We are going to use some of them on animal pens down at the Corn Maze and the rest well.... if any of you have some good ideas on what to use pallets for let us know!

Well, that's all for now!  Hope you enjoyed this little peek into the Peck's life! 

Pray you all have a wonderful Sunday!

God bless!

Snowpeas?

Hey, does anyone have any good recipes for Snowpeas?

Gardening Questions

Wow! Gardens sure are hard work! Being gone at SMITE and then taking Caleb to TN sure got me REALLY behind on weeding. :( I'm still learning all the tricks of the trade so I thought I'd take this blog post to ask all of you if you all have any garden tips or secrets to share on how you grow certain things, keep weeds under control, keep pests away, etc... I'd love to glean from your wisdom. Just leave a comment or e-mail me! (This is Jordan by the way.) I would also love it if you all would share some of your favorite recipes. We are growing a lot of tomatoes and I'd like to make some salsa and spaghetti sauce if any of you have some good recipes for that. We are also growing peppers, okra, green beans, cucumbers, zucchini, and egg plant. I'd love to hear from you!

For those of you who are growing onions I have a tip that someone just passed on to me that we are really enjoying. A friend's mom cuts off all but one or two of the greens on her onion plants and chops them up to use in dishes! It doesn't hurt the onions at all they just grow right back! She also has freezed them! I cut up some yesterday and measured them up into bags and froze them and found that they freeze individually so you don't have to worry about them freezing in clumps! I used some of them in salad dressing and it REALLY added a lot of flavor.
Have fun gardening!