After we got some good rain a couple weeks ago, I really thought we would not have any trouble getting enough rain the rest of this season, but here we are again. I was hoping we would not have to use our pond anymore this year except for irrigating our hoophouse crops, but we have had to irrigate the last three evenings. It was nice to have a break from irrigating and the pond was holding out there for a couple weeks but now it is down a few more feet. This makes it hard on our new plantings of fall and winter crops like cabbage, beets, carrots and rutabegas.
But the chickens are safe for now. We closed them up in their coop Friday evening as we do each evening before we plan to move them the next morning. Its a good thing we did because Saturday morning when we were moving them, there was the hawk hanging around in the trees waiting for a chance to get its breakfast. So if we hadn't closed them in we probably would have lost more. So we moved them into our patch of dead raspberries. This gives them plenty of cover, lots to eat and provides fertility for these beds which we will convert to more space for vegetable crops next year.

lettuce mix

lettuce
pea shoots
sunflower shoots
squash and zucchini
parsley
potatoes
Swiss chard
kale
a few eggplant
tomatoes
cherry tomatoes
green beans
dragon tongue beans
tomatillos
peppers, green and ripe
garlic
carrots
beets
sweet onions
shallots
a few melons
eggs