What are your SS goals for 2009?

[Dace]

Well I am very optimistic about this new year

~Plan to put in at least 2 maybe 3 raised beds.
~Try Bee's tomato trellis
~Start a nice large herb bed
~Launch my new biz. idea, cooking classes (much easier than doing other people's gardening!)
~Learn how to make soap
~Convert to all natural cleaning product and homemade laundry soap
~Research Beekeeping and decide if it would be good for me
~Ponder ways to market lip balms, soaps, scrubs and maybe candles. Perhaps my local farmers market.

If we buy the house we are in....Chickens & Ducks for sure!!!

 

[me&thegals]

Hey Dace--Can you tell us more about this tomato trellising system? That's my forever goal for each year--to find a better way to support my tomatoes

 

[TanksHill]

2009 Goals... Keep my husband and family healthy!!

Ummm...

Rabbit, for Maure to start. I talked my dh into building a hutch/run this morning.
Produce huge amounts of veggies in my new beds,
Can veggies.
Reduce clutter and unnecessary STUFF!
Start producing hand made goods to sell. Embroidry, quilts, coops etc...
Use cash made form above to add goats to the mix.
Baby my orchard and grow a bumper crop of fruit.

Not buy anthing "NEW". Unless it's for SS or to make something.

I am so sure there are a ton more.

 

[TTs Chicks]

I hope to: plant a garden - get my fence up and get a beef cow - build an incubator and hatch some chicks to raise for the freezer - learn to can - freeze and can as much as possible.

Breakfast this morning was homemade bread - my first attempt and it was yummy! - and eggs from our own hens. That was such a good feeling.

 

[FarmerChick]

Dace

tell me a little more about your cooking class business. I think that is a fab idea vs. the heavy work of gardening. COOL

let me know what you plan....are you close to starting or what??

 

[Sherrynboo]

I have so many things I want to accomplish this spring!

1) build new chicken coop
2) move asparagus to new garden
3) plant the 7 new blueberry bushes and raspberry bushes a friend is going to give me
4)build new garage for the tractor and other implements

These are just the immediate things I need to accomplish. Sometimes I think I have ADD cause I just cannot focus on things to get to the end point. I guess maybe if I didn't have to work outside the home I would be able to focus more on things on the farm.

Sherry

 

[keljonma]

1. Finish the 2009 garden plan, check on seeds I dried from 2008 garden... as soon as I can find them.

2. Get all my canning supplies gathered in one spot... instead of 4.

I don't understand how some areas of our place are soooo organized, but my canning and gardening stuff is all over the place!

3. Find a home for our Golden Campine roo, Sam.

 

[lorihadams]

Plant a garden
Use less and conserve more
Pay off credit card debt
Only buy what we truly need
Try to take better care of myself
Shop at farmer's markets instead of Walmart-I hate that store
Be nicer to everyone and try to be more patient-especially with my kids

 

[Dace]

Hey Dace--Can you tell us more about this tomato trellising system? That's my forever goal for each year--to find a better way to support my tomatoes

Bee will have to come a long. and explain properly....i think she posted a pic somewhere last year, easy garden perhaps. Basically it is a free standing lean to....poles and a lot of string. The plants grow up the string but because the thing leans back, you are not fighting to keep the heavy plant up. I need to get further instruction but I have the basic idea in my head! Sorry this is not very clear at all!

 

[Dace]

2009 Goals... Keep my husband and family healthy!!

Ummm...

Rabbit, for Maure to start. I talked my dh into building a hutch/run this morning.
Produce huge amounts of veggies in my new beds,
Can veggies.
Reduce clutter and unnecessary STUFF!
Start producing hand made goods to sell. Embroidry, quilts, coops etc...
Use cash made form above to add goats to the mix.
Baby my orchard and grow a bumper crop of fruit.

Not buy anthing "NEW". Unless it's for SS or to make something.

I am so sure there are a ton more.

Gina I have a nice Rex that I need to rehome. Are you interested? We got her from a rescue and she is independent but friendly, and does need plenty of outside her cage time. I just bought a roll of cheap 3 foot fencing at home depot and made her a play area outside....left it at the old house though and I am using a borrowed cage so you would have to have your own. I need to find her a nice home as I am not prepared to deal with building a rabbit hutch right now ad no one is spending time with her.