Lawn Mowing Alternative

 The Farmer Hates Cutting Grass

Especially when the pasture is short

As you can see the sheep have eaten the pasture down

 No Problem

Step in temporary fence posts

A cable with clamps

Attach one end to the live wire of the electric fence

 Attach the other to the temporary fence

 Voila Nine little lawn mowers

And no gasoline required

The Farmer has plans to move this around to different locations as needed

Coconut Chicken

Coconut Chicken has been on The Farmers mind all week

The Farmers Friend posted the recipe on facebook

The Farmers Friend was announcing that

The Farmers Friends Wife was making the dish for supper

The Farmer has been obsessed ever since

So today he stopped at Pupo's Grocery in Welland

Boneless skinless were on sale this week

A small bag of sweetened coconut

One coffee grinder

Pulse till fine

Add bread crumbs to coconut in a baking dish

Never measure just wing it til you like the mix

 Slice the chicken in strips

 Dredge them in flower

 Flower all of them before the next step

 Now into beaten egg on the way to the bread crumb coconut mix

 Cover them completely with the mixture

 A parchment paper covered cookie sheet will help the cleanup

Convection at 350 f for 1/2 hour then flip

Another 5 to 10 minutes should do the trick

Just enough to get a golden tinge

A bit of hot chili sauce on the side takes the edge off the coconut

Some leftover fish crisp mix came in handy 

There was just a bit of extra chicken

Fish crisp is meant to be fried so these have a bit of powder on them

Not a problem for The Farmers Family

Baked is much healthier

All in all a wonderful recipe

Tasty and moist just the way you would want chicken

Brown Work Socks

Work Socks Anyone

The Farmer has been called back to the factory!

Layoff over.

:-(

Onions and shallots are in

Arugula, peas and radishes seeded

Electric fence installed

And

Enough work socks made

Here are some pics of the latest ones

Please excuse The Farmers dirty pair 

added to the drying new ones just for the pic

The Quilt

Its The Farmers Wife's 50th

The Farmers Only Daughter's In-laws brought her a gift

Being that The Farmers Wife is a coronation street fan a British themed card

Personalized by The Queen and Prince

Well probably not.

The Farmers Only Daughter's Mother In-law is a quilter

She Made this gift personally for The Farmers Wife 

Isn't it fantastic !!

Its final resting place

Mulching The Garlic

Spring has sprung and weed season is fast approaching.

The Farmer is not a fan of weeds.

They appear as if by magic, Black Magic to be precise.

The garlic is ahead of the weeds so far,

The Farmer wants to keep it that way.

This was three weeks ago

The sprouts have lost their blanket of snow

It is now the first week of April.
All the snow is gone and the ground has dried.

The Farmer made a few calls and found straw.
100 bales of straw.

The ground is dry enough to walk on.

The cracks are a spring thing there is still lots of moisture there

 The Farmer invested in a bale mulching machine this spring.

Inside this device are blades attached to a shaft that spins.

As the blades spin the Tub slowly rotates. 

A blower blows the chopped straw down a 25 foot hose.

The Farmer sprays the straw like water over the garlic.

The hose is lying beside the bales

The Farmers Wife did the loading job while The Farmer applied a nice coat onto the garlic

 It looks beautiful with 50 bales applied.
The Farmer and The Farmers Wife are very itchy.
They will leave this for a while and see how it holds in the wind.
A nice rain would help but for now they wait.
50 more bales await their fate.

Cheers