Farmstead 7

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Let’s talk propagation! 🙂

The best time to take “softwood” cuttings is in June, July, and sometimes early August. Softwood refers to a growth stage of a deciduous woody plant that’s not the new, green growth at the end of a shoot, or the stiff woody growth at the base of the stem. The best way to know if a shoot has reached the softwood stage is to bend it. If it snaps, the shoot is ready to be taken as a cutting. If the shoot is very flexible and doesn’t snap, it’s too green. Finally, if it’s not flexible at all, it’s too old.

Make sure to water your plants well before taking cuttings. The cuttings need to be 6-8 inches long, and you should only cut when you’re ready to propagate. Avoid taking cuttings from old, aged, or declining shrubs/plants, and ensure that they are insect and disease free. The soft shoots are very tender, and extra care needs to be taken to keep them from drying out. The great news is that softwood cuttings usually root quickly so the work pays off!

You can use a small flower pot or a small flat tray if rooting a few cuttings at a time. Cover the cuttings with a bottomless milk jug to maintain high humidity, or place the container in a clear plastic bag of you don’t have a greenhouse. Come Fall, enjoy potting up your cuttings.

Recommended plants for propagation include most ornamental shrubs, conifers, vining plants, and herbs. Plants easily propagated by softwood cuttings are Azaleas, Blueberries, Flowering Cherries, Crapemyrtles, Dogwoods, Forsythia, Hydrangeas, and Roses.

Happy Propagating - Be sure to share with us what you choose to propagate 🙃

96 degrees today with a feels like 100 means getting outside at 6:45am to tend to all animals and the garden 👩🏻‍🌾🐓🥚🐖

Happy Wednesday! 🥰

Some fun Baking and Making the past 2 weeks 🎉⬇️

The yolk broke, but here’s a double yolker we got this morning 😅

I’d say it was a pretty successful Gardening afternoon!

Pea plants staked in.
Got Green Bean plants in the ground.
Cucumber Trellis border mulched.
Tomato Bed mulched.
Strawberry Patch rearranged.
Got Cabbage plants in the ground.
Herb table re-seeded in bald spots.

Some fun baking this month so far, and most are made with Sourdough! 🎉🤤

May is National Egg Month 🎉🥚

Remember, you can get your Pasture Raised Farm Fresh Eggs from us for $5/dozen!

Picked our very first strawberries from the garden yesterday. Our garden is growing beautifully, and so are the chickens 🙂

These 4 beautiful Crested Legbar ladies made their way to a forever coop today. They will lay blue eggs, and I am so excited for their new family to have those in their basket! 🪺

Happy Earth Day!
Today we celebrated by releasing the butterflies we raised into our garden 🐛🦋

Homemade Sourdough Everything Bagel with one of our Pasture Raised Fresh Eggs, and cheese for breakfast 🎉😍

Happy Monday everyone!

Spring has sprung, things in the garden have sprouted (and we even see some strawberries coming in) AND all 6 butterflies have emerged. This was a pretty cool project - stay tuned for the release of these beauties in our garden fairly soon.

Happy Solar Eclipse Day 2024 from Salisbury, NC!!

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** With lenses filter vs. Without **

Baby Chick wants to be all over Mama Hen 😅🥰

Fun project we are doing with our children this Spring
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So far there’s 5 of 6 cocoons made!!

It’s an Easter Week Miracle…

We have yet another chick that hatched overnight and another working its way out!

True story here - Mama hen left the nest for various hours a day to tend to the other hatchlings. After two days in a row, I took the remaining eggs as an experiment and put them in the incubator. Well that was accidentally turned off for at least 24-36 hrs. I turned it back on in hopes it would work out still, and to our surprise IT IS!

We have 3 chicks hatched so far and now the 4th is hatching! 🤗🐣Stay tuned for the next chick photo

We had yet ANOTHER surprise hatch overnight! 🥰

We gathered whatever eggs were left after the second mama hen hatched a few herself. Put them in the incubator, and discovered that we’ve got a chick who hatched within the last 24 hours 🥰

How cool is this!!??

What a successful Chick Day event!!! 🐣

Thank you to all of our customers, we truly appreciate your support. & Thank You Heart & Oak for allowing us to host this event at The Corner Market.

We still have a few chicks left so please message us if interested 🤗

Happy St Patrick’s Day! 💚🍀

We can’t wait to see you all tomorrow!

123 E. Innes St. Salisbury NC 28147

We will have pre-order chick pickups, a limited amount of chicks for sale, and dozens of culinary eggs! 🎉

Hi all,

We will be at The Corner Market THIS SUNDAY from 12-4pm. If you pre-ordered chicks, this is the pickup location and time.

We will also have dozens of eggs and a few more baby chicks available for purchase! Can’t wait to see you all 🤗

The Corner Market:
123 E. Innes St. Salisbury, NC 28147

Our Rainbow Double Dozen 😍

Get started on yours by ordering from our available chicks today!

Friendly Temp Reminder and Chick Care Tips:

- Pine shavings are a great bedding option
- Chicks should always have access to clean water
- Open access to crumble feed
- Begin short trips outside on warm sunny days around 3-4 weeks
- Gradually increase those trips outside by 6 weeks for full transition
- Chicks should be fully feathered by 6 weeks

We have two new mama hens here at the Stay N Lay 🎉

Will post a video tomorrow as it’s dark out now and they are all in for bed 🥰 STAY TUNED!

SURPRISE! We’ve got some Broiler Chickens available for next weekend also 🎉 Find availability below:

Black Copper Marans: 15 available
Legbars: 16 available
Olive Eggers: 5 available
(Above chicks are sexed as Pullets)

Cornish Cross Broilers: 18 available
(Ready for process after 6-8weeks)

Our Lavender Orpington chicks are staying warm on this rainy morning.

*These are not for sale*