Goals for 2018

A few broad beans, Jan 2018

Well, new year, new goals.  If you check The Plan (also linked at the top of the page), you can read the current year's goals, as well as links to previous years'.  I've already achieved one goal!

1 Year Goals (by 1 Jan 2019)

• Extend vegetable self sufficiency by 1 month (6 months total)
• Cut down sycamore tree in back
• Continue improving soil in front beds
• Raise at least one batch of chicks

5 Year Goals (by 1 Jan 2024)

• Fully self sufficient in vegetables and seasonal fruit
• Raising/breeding meat and replacement layers
• Greenhouse erected 

My 5 year goals are identical to the previous years.  We saved up a big chunk of cash to pay an arborist to fell our mature sycamore out back earlier this month (North American readers may know it as a sycamore maple).  It was a three-trunked giant--taller than the mature horse chestnut next to it--and is now in a pile to dry out for firewood next winter, hopefully.  I think our next wad of cash will be for a greenhouse, although the husband wants the horse chestnut down too--as does the next door neighbor who gets all the dead leaves blown off it in autumn!  But anyway, either of those probably won't be till at least 2019.