Here's what we've been up to so far. This is our chicken shed and yard, and as you can see, it's somewhat trashy. Clint cleaned up the yard this past fall, which was completely overgrown with weeds up to your eyeballs. That was before we even thought about this project so we don't have a picture of what that looked like, but he assures us he "spent 8 hours one day hackin' away." Unfortunately we didn't have a camera the day we cleaned out the shed either, so there is no before picture to show you just exactly what we started with. I'll tell you. Inside we scraped out two truck loads of manure, and all that junk you see in the second picture was in there also. Next we dug out in front of the shed to keep water from running in the front door as it has a tendency to do when it rains a lot.
After work today (aka - our day jobs) we came home and put down geo-textile in the hole we created, and then filled it with 3/4 inch limestone. It still needs another scoop to be complete, but we're headed in the right direction. The only thing left is to critter-proof the building, and make a new gate to the yard.
Soon we'll have pictures up of the rest of the farm in its current condition. I'm sure you all can't wait to see the true magnitude of this project! Don't worry, it's not our style to disappoint.
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