Our Farming / Homesteading Calendar

The ebb & flow of our farming year seems almost natural now as we celebrate the 5 year anniversary of our move to beautiful Sunnyside Farm.  Autumn means planting, Winter means lambing, Spring means gardening & Summer means harvesting.  I thought this year I'd sit down & map out what our projected year looks like. Yes, I do know that it may all change & that's alright.  I do know the Lord may have other plans for us.  However I find it useful to have a plan in front of me so I can be prepared for different activities.  

I really enjoyed sitting down & recording what happens or what I'd like to have happen ;) at various times of the year & thought you might enjoy me sharing it with you too.

2013 Farming/ Homesteading/ Home Calendar for Sunnyside Farm:

January:  (Summer)

~ Pick stonefruits

~ Declutter house & total clean up ready for a new year of school

~ Preserve garden produce

~Preserve stonefruits & make jams for the year.

~Plan yearly goals, schedules & home maintenance needs.
~ Plan home school year

~ Mummy/ kiddo camping trip

February: (Summer)

~ Preserve garden produce including tomatoes

~ School year commences

~ Rams in with Ewes

Autumn 2009

March: (Autumn)

~ Plant winter garden

~ Winter sewing

~ Purchase half grown chicks for eggs through winter.

~ Change clothes over to winter

~ Rams out at end of month

~ Replant strawberries to new location

~ Get Chocco (my new cow) from bull

April: (Autumn)

~ Plant garlic

~ Autumn cleaning

~ Make apple sauce/ apple pie slices & freeze

~ Butcher lambs/ pigs/ possible cow??

~ My sisters wedding!!!

~ Pick grapes & learn how to preserve the juice

My very first time ploughing in 2008 ~ I'm not sure why we had the sheep in the paddock, but anyway ~ no wonder we made our neighbours laugh :)

May: (Autumn)

~ Plant crop

~ Have garden mulched

~ Order more strawberry crowns from Diggers

June: (Winter)

~ Order fruit trees & plant

~ Make sure all is ready for lambing

~ Sell wether lambs from 2012 drop

Winter 2008 ~ what a cute little Eli!

July: (Winter)

~Lambing

~ Order seeds for spring/ summer garden 

~ Plan spring/summer garden

August: (Winter)

~ Lambing

~ Harvest Oranges

~ Earliest Chocco can calf

~ Start seeds

September (Spring)

~ Dry up Bessy if she is still milking

 (?? quite possibly this will happen much earlier looking at the size of the calf now ~ this is ideal so we can have milk all the way through the year ~ assuming I can train Chocco to milk successfully:)

~ Start seeds & begin to plant garden

~ Spring cleaning

~ Sell ewe lambs from 2012 drop

The most amazing moon!

October: (Spring)

~ Spring/ Summer clothes change over

~ Summer sewing

~ Haying season

~ Bessy to Bull ( if not before ~ see note above :)

~ Plant out garden

November: (Spring)

~ Christmas prep begins

~ Plant rest of garden

~ Get carpets cleaned

~ Wean lambs from mothers

~ Mulch garden for summer

December: (Summer)

~ Cherry picking & preserving

~ Harvest ( if not before)

~ Christmas prep

Summer ~ this year ~ it's hot & dry!

One of my favourite verses is:

'As long as the earth endures,

seedtime & harvest,

cold & heat,

summer & winter,

day & night will never cease'

Genesis 8:22

I love the way God has made our world!  This verse has taken on extra meaning for me since we moved to the farm .  

Have a lovely day

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