The word Green stands for so many different things. Environmentally friendly. The greenies. Marijuana. The Green Party (hey NZ – are they still there?). Green as in innocent or un-knowing. Little Green Men. Green as in envious. Green Tea. For me: Green means – well – GREEN – as in the colour. 
Yesterday it rained with a high of 60F (15C) . A warm drizzle all day long. I was working inside the barn for a few hours and came out into the late afternoon to find the world had turned Green. As in Greening UP.
In about four hours the world had turned green.
Amazing.
In the time it took for my Lemon Chicken Chickpea Soup to cook, the world had turned green. This soup is divine. I use a whole cut up chicken (one of my home grown ones of course) and omit the rice.
All the cows are suffering loudly in the yards – they hate to be locked out of the fields but the rain makes the ground so soft and poggy and if they are quiet long enough they would be able to hear their forage growing and their world turning green.
Today I start to clean out Fede’s waterers (in between cleaning a winters worth of piggie-living out of the barn) so when I do bring Poppy home everything will be ready for her and her (hopefully) piglets.
By Thursday we should be drying out again and then I will begin to plant the brassicas and sow the beetroots and carrots into the late winter (early spring) garden. There is lots of work ahead to set ourselves up for the summer.
Some Dates.
- Poppy (Hereford sow) has two dates – 25 April and 16th of May. I think it will be May.
- Lady Astor Holstein/Dutch Belted) is due in the first week of May.
- Alex (Dexter) is due late June
- Aunty Del (Ayrshire) is due July 10th.
I hope you have a lovely day.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
36 responses to “Going Green”
Love the shot of that calf….glad to see Spring has arrived for you:)
Yes, and in Ireland we have forty shades of green… there has to be an up side to all the rain! Sunshine this morning and it is very welcome. The maternity suites will be busy but hopefully spaced out to give you the time needed for each new family.
What a brilliant photo of Carlos the Tiny. He looks like an ancient Greek carving, with all those beautiful loops and curls in his coat. He’d look amazing in bronze, wouldn’t he? Your land is greening before our eyes, you could almost see it happening with time lapse photography. It’s going to be Baby Animals of All Nations at the Farmy this spring. Can’t wait!
I can even see a cow with green earrings 😉
I just said last night that just during the afternoon the buds on the trees had popped out amazingly so that I could not see the church across the lake as clearly as I had in the morning! I love when you can actually see it happening, don’ t you? You have a busy busy time ahead with all that going on and I can’t wait to watch along with you!
Yes it’s so amazing see the plants sprouting and to be having a marvelous early spring. I think i have sone carrot and parsnip seeds somewhere, and of course pea seeds will go in soon and tomato seedlings to start.
Welcome to the greens of growth. We’re so lucky here, there’s always plenty of green around – the result of plenty of rain, this year the wettest ever winter.
Looking forward to the exciting time of baby animals.
love,
ViV xox
The soup sounds delicious. It has been warming up here too, the geese have been flying back in huge V formations overhead, a sure sign of spring.
I will look out for them this time – they must be on their way to me!
That soup looks yum!!
25th April and you could call one of Poppies babies ANZAC!! 🙂
Lots of babies due! Love the chicken soup recipe.
Your green makes me green with envy! We’re still some snow with a lot of brown no green in sight yet. And by the way Alberta and Canada for that matter has Green Party also!
It is so exciting to actually see the grass grow, and see the buds on the trees burst open, seemingly right before our eyes!!! 🙂
We call that warm drizzle a Pineapple Express here in the northwest although we are in Michigan for awhile and things are not as green as they are for us back in the Evergreen state! Ah well!
Your soup sounds divine!
We green’d up here too! I went to bed Saturday night after a gray, dreary, drizzly day. After a warm rain that evening, I woke up Sunday to blue skies and sunshine and GREEN. In the South, GREENing up will soon be followed by the YELLOWing of the landscape as our Southern pine trees begin releasing their pollen. The pollen will be so thick, we’ll be able to write our names in the pollen dust on our windshields.
Hooray! Spring has sprung. All those dates to look forward to new life. Best of luck as the farm and garden gear up for summer.