As some know, we have spent a lot of time fixing up the interior of The Vicarage over the last several years. It is always a work in progress, and maintaining what was done remains a challenge. That said, this summer I wanted to turn my attention to the forest garden at The Vicarage, which has been neglected for seven long years.

I have done a lot of work rearranging garden beds and planting herbs and vegetables. The time of harvest has begun. Tonight in fact I am frying up our second egg plant from the garden and making a chopped salad of tomatoes, cucumbers and green bean garnished with nasturtiums.

This week The forest garden had two large projects that took place. The first project was…CHICKENS!

We got our first four chickens! They are named Squash, Partly Sunny, Eggplant and Spot.

Because their coop is a little smaller than we would, we have built them temporary exercise yard as well. My plan is to do some more brush cutting around the coop , buy some wood and fencing and set up a larger coop before the winter sets in. This will have to do for now.

The other project we had done was our Northern driveway. I got a good price from Art’s Paving, so we did this on Friday afternoon.

The Vicarage…. it is a never-ending work, but we keep moving forward.