Each spring, we add 4-5 new chicks to our laying flock. Typically, we would purchase day-old chicks from a hatchery, and raise them indoors under a heat lamp until they have feathered out enough to move outdoors. But since we have not yet outfitted our tiny house with solar power, we do not have ...
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Out the Front Door
Snapshots and snippets of the beautiful, crazy world right out our front door.
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My husband Brian has an affinity for earth-moving. He loves to create terraces, sod mounds, trenches, and earth ...
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5 Strategies for a Weed-Free Garden
If you're anything like me, you love to garden not only for the amazing nutrient-dense food that a garden provides your family and community, but also for the beauty and wonder of the garden. Weeds are not only competition for the nutrients and water that food plants need, but they can also take ...
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In the Garden :: May
Late May is a time of glorious growth, beauty, and promise. After months and months of eating supermarket produce from California, suddenly we're walking into the garden and harvesting a large salad, or a broccoli, or a new pea. The excitement of growing my own food, and the beauty of the garden is ...
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To Till or Not to Till A Garden?
As we set out to expand our gardening space this spring, I assumed that I would continue creating a sheet mulch or lasagna garden, slowing adding layers of organic material to build soil without disturbing its layers. You see, as someone who studied and taught ecology for many years, I know that ...
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Homestead Beekeeping :: Installing a New Beehive
After a fun-filled camping trip in Southern Missouri, we stopped at the regional beekeepers' meeting last Monday night to pick up a 3lb package of bees to start a new hive on our homestead. Although we had kept bees for several years on our Oregon homestead, we ended up selling the hives and most ...
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