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The chickens started laying about ten days ago. We have some ideas who’s laying, and I’m not sure it’s all of them. We built a little platform and put some Rubbermaid tubs on it, for nest boxes, but the chickens go under the platform — the gap is only about 4 inches — and [...] Can we dry overripe shelling peas, which are too starchy to eat fresh, and use them like split peas? Is there any use for the fibrous but still fresh and juicy shells of the peas that did not get overripe? Make stock maybe? If one boy duck is picking on the other boy [...] Sometimes someone writes a really well-researched and well-written book on our relationship with food and sometimes someone draws a smart-assed web comic about the same thing. The other day (by which I mean exactly two weeks ago) we were tagged by Laura at (not so) Urban Hennery for a meme about six random things. It was very exciting, as it is the first time our tiny new blog has been tagged by another blogger, and we were so overwhelmed that [...] Rare Crowing Hen — $5. I haven’t been able to stop giggling since I ran across this ad. (Reproduced here in case the ad goes away) Quick post now before I run out to help Garth hill up the potatoes. Too good not to share. On May 29: The exact same location on June 29: As Garth said, hoophouses are awesome. |
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