Can They Do It?

Rob and Tammy spent time today working on a priority list of items they hope to complete THIS WEEK.

We'll update the progress here each evening.  Let's see what the farmers, the workers, the chickens, ducks, turkeys, cats and earthworms can accomplish this week!  Completed tasks are in green.  In progress tasks are in purple.
Alas - we are in a rain delay.  Most of the field work will now need to roll into next week's list.  But, we made a valiant effort this week to complete all we could. 
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End of week update:
 Farmers, workers, volunteers, cats, chickens, ducks, turkeys and even the earthworms all agree that we put in a good week at the farm.  A number of the items not completed were postponed due to rain.  Can't control that.  A few others changed due to circumstances.  Some items were added and completed, a few others stayed but were placed at lower priorities.  In other words, a normal work week.

Our thanks for positive thoughts.  We may do this again as we found it motivated many of the workers to turn items on a list "colors."  We hope you found it interesting as well.
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Broilers

• Finish new shelters
• Mow Field E1   
• Move shelters to E1
• Fences to E1
• Modify current buildings to let in more air
• Move 1st batch broilers to E1
• Move 2nd batch broilers to E1
• Set up water reserve by E1
• clean up red building for ducks

Hens

• Move metal nest box into hen room
• move henlets in with hen flock
• move fence away from henlet area
• move triangle shelter to intermediate location
• Make another roost for hens
• straw in nest boxes
• take old fence down W side hen pasture

Turkeys

• clean out room
• straw into room
• Turks out of brooder and into room

Ducks

• Move older ducks into bigger brooder
• clean out smaller brooder
• remove smaller brooder from room
• mow pasture for ducks
• move building to duck pasture 
• move ducks to temp pasture location

Garage

• Finish scraping 
• and sanding
• Prime 2 sides

CSA

• Message to Tue/Wed CSA members
• Message to Thu CSA members
• Pick/Clean/Pack for CSA
• Deliver CSA Thus 
• Clean up after CSA

High Tunnel

• cut down weeds along sides of building
• repair line on north side roll up
• set up irrigation lines
• weed north edge
• lay fabric north edge
• plant rest of peppers
• plant second bean succession 
• clean out old plants
• staple down south fabric
• pull out bolted lettuce 
• Harvest last of kohlrabi and lettuce

Truck Barn

• boards on North wall
• set up tool wall organization
• organize and clean prior to Thus CSA

Poultry Pavillion

• Set up outside door for hens
• Fix South door to hen room

Supplies/Errands

• Acquire drip line, feeder lines and parts for irrigation
• Acquire new picking tubs to replace worn out tubs
• Vet for cats 
• Pick up new flair box trailer
• trash run
• wood mulch
• sandpaper
• barn lime
• wheels for carts
• part for hose reel
• excess plants to Food Bank
• gasoline for equipment
• cardboard recycling 

 Equipment

• Fix hose cart feeder line
• Adjust new tool bar to row spacing
• Find parts for between row cultivator and fix
• Adjust mulch layer, 
• replace set bolts - broke another one...
• put up calendar, clock, field map for worker area
• put up white board
• Build drip tape layer for cart
• Get a 2nd cart working (pirate a wheel from one)
• Clean out a cart and put power washer in it
• learn to use new irrigation feeder line

Field Work

• E2 - Prep/Plant Beets/Radish
• E2 - Prep/Plant succession III summer squash/zucchini
• E2 - prep/plant melon succession
• E2 - weed garlic
• E2 - weed turnip
• E2 - lay drip line
• E3 - disk east third
• E3 - chisel lines for rest of tomatoes
• E3 - plant 250 tomatoes
• E3 - cultivate with Barty between rows
• E3 - drip line down
• E3 - Irrigate
• E3 - straw mulch
• E4 - Prep/Plant Succession I cucumbers
  
• E4- Prep/Plant Succession II cucumbers
• E4 - Irrigate 
• E4 - weed/cultivate peas/carrots
• E4- replant pole beans
• E4 - pea fences up
• E4- hog panels out to E4 for pea fence
• E5 - disk field
• E5 - prep beds in middle of plot
• E5 - plant onions/broccoli/cauliflower
• E5 - side dress brassica with fertilizer
• E6 chisel field
• E6 mark out beds
• E6 lay paper mulch
• E6 plant winter squash
• E6 plant cover crop strips
• E7 cultivate and weed beans/potato
• E7 replant north 3 beds
• E7 drip line down
• E7 begin mulching
• T1 transplant kale and chard from hightunnel
• T1 till beds, put in transplants
• T1 chisel hardpan areas
• T2 prep field for melons/watermelons
• T2 lay paper mulch
• T2 plant melon/watermelon
• T2 plant cover crop strips
• T3 Drip line down
• T3 cultivate
• T3 Irrigate
• T3 replace any plants that have failed
• SW prep field for planting
• Sw weed asparagus
• SW transplant new asparagus
• Raised Beds - prep bed 1
• RB - plant lettuce/onion in bed 1
• RB - add soil to bed 2
• RB - plant as above
• RB - remove excess soil
• Waverly plots - prep beds 2 and 3
• WP - weed bed 1
• WP - replace failed plants
• WP - plant leeks, cabbage bed 3
• WP - plant cabbage bed 2
• WP - plant onion bed 2
• WP - water all twice in week 

Other

• Dig up dead trees
• plant 5 trees 
• pictures of new t-shirts
• post pictures of new t-shirts
• take plants out of trays that are no longer viable and dry trays
• update website