It’s spring, that means all of the plants are ready for their trimming.  Or, rather, for me it means that I need to get my bumbum in gear and get everything trimmed before all of the plants are leafed out… for once.  […]

 Comfy privacy These old cat litter boxes have been so wonderful as nesting boxes! They’re durable, movable, and lightweight. In all honesty, when we first built our mobile chicken tractor, we could not figure out an easy way to factor in the […]

  Nothing says that Spring is here better than everything waking up and showing their bedhead after a long winter.  After trimming the figs, I always start some cuttings.  Why not?  It’s easy and figs are delicious! All you’ll need is: Some […]

Figs are the most amazing food.  Not those things at the grocery that try to pass off as figs.  Real, grown to full ripeness figs are like a honey bomb.  My favorite variety is Negronne, found at Jung Seed Company.  It is […]

Spring is on the way, but there are still a few nights expected to hit below freezing.  I’m tired of waiting (I’ve been tired of waiting since February 1!), so let’s get started with a personal salad patch made from a leftover […]

  What are those things?   You’ve probably seen them.  The weird, foam balls that suddenly appear on stems and branches in the later part of summer.  As a kid, you might have taken a stick and stabbed it to see what, […]

With winter setting in, I want to showcase this hoophouse.  The design was an idea inspired from The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Growers Handbook.  We bought a hoop bender from Johnny Select Seeds to shape the metal pipes and criss-crossed rope along the […]

Goats are companion animals, which means that they do best when having someone to share the pasture with.  However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that keeping male and female goats together is a great idea.  While there are times when they can roam […]

Cooking over an open fire, roasting marshmallows and hot dogs, heating your house with a wood stove, boiling maple sap, etc.  It requires logs that have been chopped into fire wood. I’m busy and that means that I like efficiency.  Chopping logs […]

I talked about deep bedding very briefly in an earlier post, Temporary Barn Idea.  For this post, I’m going to go into more detail about it. Deep bedding is, simply put, the continual addition of new bedding on top of old, soiled […]