Our bee supplies arrived!!!YAY!!! I am so excited! Now we (and the hive we built…and by “we” I really mean Tool Lady with my assistance) play the Waiting Game in anticipation of our bees arrival! Their expected ship date is May 10th.
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How the heck do you find hope in chicken poop?!?! A few years ago I read the book Harvest For Hope by Jane Goodall and went back and forth between feeling very overwhelmed by all of the madness we have created and feeling very empowered and quite capable of making…
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UncategorizedPeanuts!
This year I have gotten very excited about planting some peanuts as a different way to grow some protein and heal our soil at the same time. Valencia Peanuts (the ones with the red skin) grow best in our crazy climate, so I ordered them and had them sent…
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With spring officially upon us I find myself remembering how many hours of hard, dirty work it takes to get the yard ready for planting! All winter long, while I’m warm and cozy, hibernating and stuck inside, I fantasize about being in the yard with the sun on my back…
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With the time change (and my body’s inability to figure out when to sleep and when to wake) also comes more light and Spring being (officially) in view! HooRay!!! Last weekend we did a little spring cleaning and prepping…and I’m just writing about it now because it was all quite…
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I have finally completed my list of seeds…What I have and what I want. While I have not begun planting yet…I plan on starting the babies inside next weekend…I definitely have (almost) Spring Fever!!! Here are all of the seeds that will go into the ground this year somewhere in…
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Ch-ch-changes! How do you go from eating very little organic foods, eating out a lot, using paper towels and taking really long showers to being kinder to the earth and to yourself? One step at a time. However, change is not easy for me. I am a creature of…
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Alrighty then…here’s my very first posting! Yay me! Cheers to the beginning of my blog about our experiences growing food and chickens (and hopefully bees soon, too) on 1/8 acre as well as all of our joys and stumbles along the way! I thank you (my imagined reader) in advance while I figure…