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We pasture our chickens with a combination of a chicken tractor and electric mesh fencing. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get a good charge on the fence and, in combination with the dogs being friendly with the chickens and keeping predators down, we don’t turn the electric fence on. It’s just a big [...] The other day we were looking through my “chickens” tag on Flickr, reminiscing about how cute they were when they were tiny. I realized I haven’t taken any pictures of the chickens in a good long while, even though I (we?) spend a lot of time thinking about them and checking on them. They [...] So the other day the girls laid only a single egg. It was bizarre. Then, the day after, we got five eggs. We normally get between three and six eggs per day, so having an egg-free day out of the blue was kind of bizarre. Everything seems to be back to normal. I guess [...] We made a lot of progress on the expanded chicken coop this weekend! Its name is now Chicken Bunker, on account of how cozy and built-into-the-hill it is. All that’s left to do is get the roof on and wire up the sides, which is only a few more hours of work. The old [...] So it turns out that I deeply, deeply love preparing seedbeds. I love double-digging and broadforking and cultivating soil. An I love creating a nice, smooth, enriched bed to plant starts in. It’s as satisfying to me as sweeping a concrete floor. And I love sweeping concrete floors. Here’s most of the former tomato [...] Lately we have been making a lot of dishes that will last a long time, because we have also been canning, and the prospect of cooking anew each evening is too daunting. So it’s been soups that last for days, for convenience’s sake. Recent eatin’: Eggs! omg eggs. Frittata with green and white [...] Inspired by Throwback at Trapper Creek’s straw bale root cellar, we’re going to take a crack at building our own to store potatoes and all the apples that blew down in last night’s windstorm. We went to the feed store and picked up “as many straw bales as will fit in this truck”* and [...] I have taken eggs to coworkers a few times already, and I will again, but today we got our first non-acquaintance/friend/coworker customer. A friend of our neighbor, or maybe a friend of a friend of our neighbor, she has food sensitivities that don’t allow her to eat chicken eggs. She emailed to say “is [...] |
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