So, you’ve asked yourself all of the questions and you’ve decided to jump into backyard chicken keeping with both feet? Awesome! You’ve created your brooder and have it ready with clean litter, a heat lamp and some food and water. You’ve picked your breeds, come up with a number you want to start with and you’re bursting at the seams…
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Install a stake in the ground with a gate hook on it that hooks into it’s respective eye hole on your gate. I’m telling you, it’s a super simple, low cost way to save yourself a lot of trouble with the opening and closing and opening and closing of your gate (either by yourself or at the hand of the…
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Once you’ve checked your allergies, checked your codes and checked your motives, the next step in your beekeeping journey is to start making some serious plans to set yourself and your bees up for the greatest success possible. Before we get into the details about your bees hive and home, I’d like to encourage you to research beekeeping groups…
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If you’d asked me a decade ago if I’d be writing a post on urban gardening I might have laughed out loud, and yet here I am now. Who knew? Growing up, my mom always had a tomato plant or a few carrots or herbs growing in some patch of soil. She had the greenest thumb and could really make…
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Excuse me while we have a little fun with chicken scratch here at Ever Growing Farm! Because, you know…life is too short and too serious most of the time and chickens are incredibly funny and chicken scratch is like chicken crack to them and I laughed and laughed and laughed while taking these pictures 😉 I do hope you think…
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We all know by now that bees are key to our survival on this planet. Their benefits to us far outweigh ours to them and it seems as though lots of people are thinking about and talking about beekeeping in the sense of “getting a few bees” for their backyards in an effort to “help” them through the madness we’ve…
