Farm-sitting at Cloud9

Our friends and now neighbors Seann and Alison at Cloud9 Farm asked us to watch over their farm this week while they visit family for Thanksgiving. So this week, we've been making that 1/2 mile or so walk down the hill to their house twice a day to feed the chickens, ducks, turkeys, pigs and cats that call Cloud9 home.

It's pretty simple - there's three pens, one for the pigs and two for the birds. Their grain, alfalfa and scratch are all in buckets right next to the pens. We fill in their feed boxes with a mix of each in the morning and they have at it. The hardest part is just carrying their water pales from the faucet to the pen. And then I collect the eggs and go in and feed the cats and their son's fish. Allison has some greens still growing in the greenhouses so we water those too.

It's great to be able to help out a neighbor.