Every year about this time I start making up my fall work list. These are the little must-do's before the really cool and wet season starts. I'm lucky that we live so far into the south, so even my fall items don't have to really be completed until early to mid October.
So far the list reads something like this -
Pull all of last year's hay out of the barns, inspect, and restack.
Clean poultry houses and put fresh hay in egg boxes, new shavings on the floor.
Clean out the llama barn and lay fresh straw.
Move all poultry to winter housing.
Fill woodshed.
Check gasket on wood stove.
De worm goats, donkeys and llamas.
Plant fall veggies.
Cover unused garden beds with manure.
Seems simple enough, but when you add in the extra projects (ongoing house renovations, building a new rabbit house, finishing up the outdoor runs on the turkey house), it really might take me another month or two!
Let's not forget that apple season is coming as well, and when that happens I will be up to my elbows in making applesauce, apple butter, pie fillings and canned apples. Of course, I'll be drying apples too! Sweet potatoes will be available by late fall also, and now that I've survived my first pressure canning attempt, I plan to put up some of those as well.
Somewhere in there I need to make time for another round of chicken butchering as well. Hmm....
No matter the season, the farm life never stops!
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