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I have 3 egg layers, probably wont add more this year.

Adding planted food specifically for the chickens to pasture on.

Still lobbying the missus for a goat/pig/sheep. (Guess I need a barn or some type of housing first)

Going to relocate the blackberries

Should get a good yield from the strawberries and blueberries that were put in last year.

Putting in 2 female and a male hardy kiwi.

Densely planting the raised beds for annuals, this is the second year since I buried wood  under them, so they should need less irrigation.

Building a new hugelmound for potatoes.

Starting new food forest with 2 apples, 2 plums, 2 pawpaws, 1 hardy almond, 2-in-1 grafted cherry, 2 honeyberries, 3 seaberries, 3 goumi and a bunch of siberian pea shrubs, polyculturing the whole thing and intermixing 20 black locust for added nitrogen fixation. (hoping to get the swales put in soon. Ground needs to thaw asap!)

Planted heirloom wheat last fall for the first time, see how that turns out. It'ssupposed to have a low gluten content (no GMO)

Also got an heirloom variety of corn to put down.

Discussed with the wife the different things we want to do as far as food storage and not letting so much go to waste like we did last year.

Going to build an outside canning table with a propane RV stovetop so we dont have to heat the whole house in summer to can what we've harvested.