Everyone likes chickens, right? I mean, really!? Yeah…that’s what I thought! So, I’ve gotten together with six other bloggers to bring you a big fat Chicken Round Up! My contribution to the Round Up, The Care and Keeping of Backyard Chickens was posted here last week, so now it’s time to bring you the rest of the fantastic posts! Here’s…
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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned harvesting Echinacea seeds…What I didn’t mention was that I also harvested some Echinacea roots to try my hand at my very first Echinacea Tincture! As mentioned in the seed post, our Echinacea is in its third year and did absolutely amazingly last summer! In addition to being full and beautiful, though, once your…
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Last month, shortly after Sprout was born, I posted about our homemade diaper wipe solution. What I neglected to post about was the fabric wipes we’re using as well! So, yes, in addition to homemade solution we’re using, we’re also using fabric wipes that came from the flannel remnants of the fabric (paper) towels we made last winter. We cut…
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In 2010, after living on our 1/8 acre for a couple of years and before transforming everything into the mini farm it is today, we decided to get a couple of chickens and try our hand at the keeping and care of our very first farm animals. See, we dream of acreage…of wide open spaces…of quiet nights and farm-work filled…
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Last July, after much debate and in preparation for the Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour, we culled four of our laying hens. Culling is never an easy thing for us, but it is part of the agreement we made with each other before we got chickens back in 2010. After culling and cleaning the four, we bagged them up and…
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2013 marked our Echinacea’s third year and it was absolutely gorgeous this summer with all of its brilliant blossoms and visiting pollinators (bees and butterflies) buzzing around them all summer long! Though I didn’t actually measure them, I would say the stalks got up to about 4 feet tall for the most part which made for a brilliant eye…
