June 3, 2014 These are yesterday’s gifts from our chickens. It looks like we have a “beginner” who has laid her first egg–that’s the first one we’ve seen that tiny! So cute! Hard to believe it’s from a chicken.
Year: 2014
Our First Eggs and Our First Garden
May 22, 2014 Hybrid Garden is in the Ground! At long last, our seeds have met the ground! We started out with raised row beds, but because it was too labor intensive this late in the game, we switched to traditional tilled soil gardening. Clint graciously let me stand in the middle of the plot, hold the seeds, and bark out orders about what to plant where…He’s a good man. 🙂 Oh, did you want to water that garden? How are you going to water it??!? No rain in the forecast until…
Let Me Crow About This Chicken Coop!
We used a couple of skinny trees to support the chicken wire from drooping on the top. I know that looks like barbed wire at the top, but it’s some super-sexy (NEON!) zip tie sewing we did with scrap chicken wire to keep predators out of the run and the coop. There’s an overturned plastic pool-cover turtle shell (free castaway from a trash pile) pond for the duck and the old doghouse top for a little something familiar. That beachy blue paint is a mix of most of the leftover paint…
Chicken Coop Progress 4/19/2014
I worked all day on the coop on Saturday, but made very little progress. I tore it apart when I started the day only to realize I should heave left it alone. Now my plywood floor doesn’t cover the entire deck as originally planned. I did get out of cutting 3″ off of each joist though. The plywood I originally bought for the floor was too thin and had to be removed and I had to make a trip to Lowe’s to buy sturdier plywood for the sub-floor. The…
March 2014 – Posts Imported as a single post.
Chicken Coop Progress Report – March 16, 2014 This is the overturned cast-away bottom half of a plastic dog house that they’ve been sleeping in since we moved them out last month. Â They’re so big now, that they can’t ALL fit in there!! We HAVE to do something! The chicken coop is a project we had planned on building in three stages. We have decided we are at a MUST BUILD point for the Pre-Permanent Coop. We have acquired a full sized door, some used tin sheets to repurpose…
Post 2-fer: “Dam, Beavers & Fallen Trees” & Goals 2014
Dam, Beavers & Fallen Trees Iwent to the farm today and busted up some beaver dams (the beavers have turned our property into a swampy mess) and I cut 3 hackle berry trees…I wasn’t paying attention and my saw tip got pinched. I tried to use some ratchet straps to release some of the tension but that didn’t work. I had to use a handsaw and cut the tree to get my saw unstuck. The cross section of the tree was probably as big as a laptop….it wasn’t too bad…
So, this is kind of how I feel about the farm
So, this is kind of how I feel about the farm, kind of caught off-guard, like this deer. Three years ago, I was single with no children, just me and my umpteen year old cat, Willie… Now I have a husband, a son, and eight and a half acres in Smalltown, Alabama. It’s kind of low and will need some work to improve drainage, but we couldn’t wait to get started on our farm, so my husband brought home some week-old baby chickens (and a duck!) and we kept them in…