Happy Harvest Blog
Coop Management
I put clean grass into the nest boxes and throw dirty nest box grass onto the floor of the coop, covering the daily poop. Every week I put a serious thick layer of fresh weeds that really spruces it up in there. Monthly I remove the composting result to the garden.
Chickens Make Mulch
All I have to do is feed them twice in the same place, by scattering their breakfast grain in a grassy place. They are so vigorously committed to finding every last crumb that they tear up the grass, it dries, and I collect it with a rake. Clean, soft, dry garden-ready mulch.
Garden done.
Garden done. Just a little overtime, but got 20 beds dug for this year, just as we were aiming for. H.W.'s ready to hang up the sodbreaker for this year.
The garden is growing.
The garden is growing. In size, at least. Not so much in plant growth.
Garden beginnings
We have our labor-saving, painless technique down pat now, with this wicked sod-breaker from Lee Valley. Makes a picture perfect, sod and root-free bed of soil that you’d never guess was just broken from ground unworked for 15 years.
It's officially Spring now.
I've never noticed maple keys sprouting before, but now, every single one seems to be sticking out one exploratory pale green claw, ready to take hold.
5-star Compost Accommodation
The boxes are 5’, 4’, and 3’, based on the idea that the ideal volume for compost to reach cooking temperatures is 4’ cubed.
Instagram.
I may not make a blog post every day, but at least I Insta.
Bite size.
