love the paint job on the coop!! ( in your avatar)
How do you store the fruit and pumpkins until feeding? What varieties do you grow for pears and apples?
Rape just might be a local slang of rapeseed. My kids eat sorghum instead of popcorn.
Arielle,
Thanks!
I have 2 pear trees that came with my farm.. I think they are Bartlett.. they are gritty and stay hard. Great for eating off the tree, but not for canning.
Apples - I have golden delish, red delish, Jonamac, Macintosh, gala, spy, etc... I have around 20 trees.
I pick them off the ground and store them in 5 gallon buckets. I then store everything in a building that is attached to one of the chicken runs. The building is not heated, so they freeze and start rotting.. I just throw them into the coop when I feel like it and give a few to my rabbit. The pumpkins are a little tricky, they will rot and start leaking pumpkin water all over the place.. when I see that starting, I just pick up the pumpkin and smash it against the ground in the run. I have butternut squash stored in my basement.. for eating. The hens will also get them if any start rotting or if I get tired of them.
What can you do with rapeseed?
Tell me more about sorghum and how your children eat it like popcorn? My husband grows it in our field to feed the wildlife in the area.