It's been a long month, and so eventful! We have a great garden going on, with tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli, greens, okra, pumpkin, watermellon and carrots! This saturday is my oldest sons birthday, (he turns TWO!), and my father in law is bringing his tiller over to our house. We are adding another garden, because we have lots of plants that are ready to be transplanted, and no more room in our garden. So, that's doing pretty great.
Rabbits, whew, where to start. On my quest to better my families diet, and our health, along with being frugal and raising our own meat, I came across rabbits. Now, before you say "Rabbits? Eww", hear me out. The meat is super tender, more protien then chicken, and lean as can be. A co worker was raising them, and actually was the one to sway me from chickens to rabbits. Well, him and his wife are in the process of moving from their home to an apartment, so we got the whole set up for CHEAP! The frugal me was super excited! We now have 2 females, Daisy & Sweet Pea, and a male, Thumper. We mated Daisy last Thursday, and Sweet Pea Monday, it was kind of akward to watch. The rabbits are pregnant for 31 days before giving birth with 5-10 kits, and when they are 12 weeks we can cull them for their meat.
I love the fact that almost the whole rabbit buisness is usable, their poop is my fertilizer for my gardens, their fur can be sold, and also their meat if we get too much of it. I really think this summer is going to be awesome, we will have a great garden, meat, and fish (If my husband catches a lot). Hopefully we won't have to go to the food store for quite some time!
I'll take lots of pictures of this weekend for Aydens birthday. It won't be too big, we're short on money right now because of some things that came up with my van needing tags/registration and some other things. But, it will still be great. We don't need a lot to make him happy :)
