Happy Friday, everyone!!! Man, has this week felt crazy to anyone else? Not sure what’s going on, but it’s been a little batty around here. Well, thank goodness for Fridays and warm weather…I could really use some meditative time in the yard… 🙂 Plant something (under grow lights)…I’m kind of out of control: Loofah Eggplant Italian Heirloom Tomatoes Yellow Taxi…
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I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what to actually plant in our new Pallet Beds since, before last Friday, they hadn’t fully existed in our imaginations, let alone in our yard 😉 Until then we thought we’d just put a fence around the new bee space…this is so much better though! See, sometimes Tool Lady and I…
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Today we… Painted old pallets, wrapped weed cloth around them and stuffed soil into them Cleared more rocks & leveled the ground where the bees will be moved to Put some stakes in the ground Secured two of the three pallets to their stakes Created trellising above each pallet for more vertical grow space and to crate a barrier for the bees to fly…
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After much debate, we’ve decided to move the bees. Don’t worry, we’re not moving them to someone else’s property. Instead, we’re moving them from our front yard into our backyard. Why? Well, the main reason is because, as we learned last year, it turns out I am extremely allergic to bee stings. I have purchased an EpiPen and haven’t been…
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Alright…here it is…our brand new chick brooder AKA Version #3! The chicks have been living in it for a couple of weeks now and it’s worked out wonderfully! I talked about our other two brooders here. Tool Lady re-used the wood that was our original coop (it’s all just been sitting in the garage for the past year waiting for…
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Last weekend, with the sun shining brightly overhead, and the wind whipping across the back of the house, we decided to bring the newest Newbies into the front yard again for some exploration. To encourage foraging, Tool Lady threw down some feed and a few kernels of corn. They were very excited about it all! While they were pecking around, I played…
