Today was the best day of spring so far! Did I mention we have been having the coldest and wettest April on record? Only a tiny bit of drizzle (it is the Pacific Northwest!) this morning and then glorious sun! I immediately let the chickens out to forage in the backyard and went to work in the greenhouse, seeding. We set cilantro (coriander), marigolds, bib lettuce, sugar pumpkins, swan gourds, two vining flowers (to encourage those all important bees), and sunflowers. The broccoli rabe we seeded last week has sprouted. Yea! Later, I went for another long walk on the Sammamish River trail. Hopefully, spring has finally sprung and we can put away our webbed feet for a bit.
In other news, today we had dinner from the 100 foot diet. Instead of eating local stuff from within a hundred miles of home, we had an egg and chive frittata for dinner. The eggs came from our three cluckers and the chives from our garden. Total travel distance for dinner: 35 feet to the coop + 12 feet to the garden = 47 feet. Now that's local dining!
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