A SOCIAL FARMING DAY
Spring
- Animal care: checking stock, putting in clean straw bedding, checking water drinkers, and feeding
- Assembly/planting of raised herb beds
- Maintaining fences and hedges
- Planting/staking/labeling of native Irish fruit trees; planting fruiting hedges: blackcurrants/raspberries, etc.
- Grafting of old crab apple trees/roses/box plants in the hedgerow
- Transplanting daffodils around the yard, put stake and name label where they are set.
Summer
- Animal care: checking stock, assisting with dosing/TB testing, updating veterinary register, checking water drinkers, moving cattle/mineral buckets
- Cutting back briars near the electric fence
- Power hosing, sanding, and painting
Autumn/Winter
- Animal care: checking stock, putting in fresh bedding, checking water drinkers and feeding
- Scraping slats
- Collecting crab apples to make wreaths for birds to eat and crab apple jelly
- Making rose hip syrup