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The cannabis is absolutely thriving in the rabbit colony cannabis garden

This year I only used fertility from within the rabbit colony to grow the cannabis. In the past, I've applied multiple feedings of composted horse manure processed by our chickens to grow the plants.

While the only time I water the plants in general is for a day or two after transplanting, the weather has been excellent this year for growing cannabis. Rain every few days with very mild heat waves.

Some of the plants are growing nearly as well as the season which I tried really hard to grow massive plants. Except this year, I've hardly tried at all. I attribute the success once again to the weather as well as a few years of building the soil in the garden thanks to the rabbits. The tallest plant, White Widow x Redbud Haze, is over 10ft tall.

This season I couldn't decide between two nice male expressions of Redbud Haze to pollinate the garden. I will be using both, one has already dropped pollen and been fed to the rabbits. The other is getting ready to open it's pollen sacks soon, so the seeds won't be totally random on the buds. The deeper seeds are more likely the earlier expression and the outer seeds should be the later. Since the second male has been growing all season it is giant. It should be a nice meal for the rabbits too.

Katahdin hair sheep are in the middle of their 4th grazing pass of the pastures at the homestead. Only one more to go after this.

Overall the sheep have been doing their job building our soil and turning sunshine into lamb meat while they're at it. We lost one ewe to parasites for the first time ever this season along with a couple lambs as well. For us, losing a few to parasites each year isn't surprising though. We only give dewormer to the few sheep who are struggling each time we check on them. Parasites don't seem to be much of a problem this year. A few years ago we lost 10 percent of our lambs to worms! After that loss, we started checking the sheep every two weeks instead of once a month. Now we are able to treat the sheep who have a heavy worm load before it's too late most of the time.

With ~33 percent more sheep grazing than last year, this season has been challenging. Last year we had 31 total sheep grazing and this year there are 46.

Not only are there more sheep but we also are using 1 acre of pasture exclusively for the dairy sheep leaving less for the katahdin flock to graze.

Thankfully, our new neighbors across the street are cooperating with us, so we've been able to graze a couple acres over there. After we grazed down some of the weeds, we planted turnips so the grazing season will hopefully extend through December for the ewes.

While we have more lambs this year, their weights are below average for this point in the season. With the first butcher date in early October, I'm going to start the finishing process now to see if they can catch back up. I'll be bringing them prunings from trees in each paddock to give them a nice boost of calories and nutrition. In my opinion, the addition of the tree leaves to their diet just before harvesting adds wonderful flavor to the meat too.

We are totally sold out of lamb and I'm proud to say almost all of it is going to the Bitcoin community. I did trade one for store credit at the local family owned convenience store and I ended up selling one to some guests for fiat too. Other than those two lambs, the rest are all headed to bitcoiners anywhere from Grand Rapids to Chicago and even Milwaukee.

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