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Garden Happiness & Harvest Monday

Garden Happiness & Harvest Monday

Happy Monday, everyone!I am incredibly happy to report that this week has brought us a variety of small and delicious harvests!  But first, let's look at how a few things are growing...The cucumbers and bush beans are doing very well!  The cukes aren't yet reaching for their support, but they do all have their true leaves.The tomatillos are growing in…
June 10, 2013
Chicken Feed & Egg Sales

Chicken Feed & Egg Sales

One of the details we didn't really think through when we first got our laying hens a few years ago was what they would eat, how much it would really cost and whether or not we would always have the option of organic chicken feed for the Ladies.  Luckily, our local Feed Bin carries Ranch Way products and luckily, Ranch…
June 7, 2013
Broody Australorp

Broody Australorp

Well, it looks like Spring brings broody chickens.   A few weeks ago, one of our Black Australorps went broody on us. She even plucked her  belly feathers to help incubate her unfertilized eggs.  Luckily, she's been much more docile than our broody Ameraucana last spring and there have been no attacks or bloody toes!  We've removed her from the…
June 3, 2013
19 Laying Hens

19 Laying Hens

Yesterday, while my best friend and I painted the Nursery upstairs, Tool Lady worked on fixing up the coop.  There was chicken wire and bird netting to be replaced, shade cloth to put up and a new structure to hold up the shade cloth and bird netting so we can actually walk in the coop without ducking.Once all that was…
May 27, 2013
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday, everyone!After what has felt like the longest, driest of spells possible, we are back in the business of harvesting from our small plot!  I am so happy to report that last weekend brought us a nice little bundle of delicious, tart, completely perfect rhubarb that went straight into an equally delicious crisp!While we have been anxiously waiting for…
May 20, 2013
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!Last fall, we decided to let our two raised beds/hoop houses in the front yard rest for the season. We had planted them out continuously for two straight years and decided it might be best to give them the winter to just be.Instead, we planted out one of the newer raised beds in the back yard with greens,…
April 29, 2013