Happy Harvest Blog

Seedy Saturday bounty

18/02/2018 18/02/2018

Seedy Saturday bounty

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Sow it begins

07/02/2018 07/02/2018

Sow it begins

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Seed companies don't want you to know this one fact!

21/01/2018 21/01/2018

Seed companies don't want you to know this one fact!

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Garden Plan

19/01/2018 19/01/2018

Garden Plan

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Potatoes worth taking pictures of

28/11/2017 28/11/2017

Potatoes worth taking pictures of

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Greenhouse, moved.

31/10/2017 31/10/2017

Greenhouse, moved.

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Melons and hens

16/10/2017 16/10/2017

Melons and hens

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13/10/2017 13/10/2017

Cold nights

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Blissfall days

12/10/2017 12/10/2017

Blissfall days

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Nuts and more nuts

11/10/2017 11/10/2017

Nuts and more nuts

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Hemlock Wooly Adelgid

07/10/2017 07/10/2017

Hemlock Wooly Adelgid

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Apple flow

07/10/2017 07/10/2017

Apple flow

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Tomato abundance

21/09/2017 21/09/2017

Tomato abundance

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Walnuts

20/09/2017 20/09/2017

Walnuts

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I don't give a fig. But I could.

18/09/2017 18/09/2017

I don't give a fig. But I could.

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Cosmic cloud

17/09/2017 17/09/2017

Cosmic cloud

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Sunflowers

16/09/2017 16/09/2017

Sunflowers

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Fabulous discovery

25/08/2017 25/08/2017

Fabulous discovery

So I was toppling and wrestling buckthorn, and after the pigpen, I drifted a little away from the pigs, and ran right into a high-bush blueberry laden with big blue berries. WOW!

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Big honking garlic

01/08/2017 01/08/2017

Big honking garlic

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Blueberries!?

30/07/2017 30/07/2017

Blueberries!?

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Instagram.

I may not make a blog post every day, but at least I Insta.
Bite size.

#HeatWave. It’s this kind of day. The #pigs are just going to sleep in the #wallow today.

#BlackBerkshires #pasturepigsarehappypigs #PasturedPigs #electricfence

Moved the #pigs deeper into the woods, including some dense balsam fir. I didn’t expect them to be excited about it, but that is one deeply asleep and well shaded pig in the densest of the firs.
#blackberkshire #pasturedpigs #pasturedpigsareha

The two mamas co-mothering nine chicks are just amazing. So adorable; I’ve never seen this before. The #chicks are so quiet, I almost never hear peeping, they’re so well cared for.

#MamaHen #FreeRangeChickens #DailyChicken #chickensofins

You know it’s hot when the chickens are hiding in the pine tree at nine in the morning.
#FreeRangeChickens #DailyChicken #ChickensOfInstagram #Heatwave #Shade #perchingbird

First plucking of chamomile flowers. Finally got some plants established, and lots of wild #chamomile as well, but those aren’t flowered yet. Later my bees will benefit from this.

#Herbs #Harvest #honeybees

The five. Cream puff’s five spring #chicks are all independent now, they’re always together and a little chick posse. The roosters are showing! They are the ones standing here. Already guardians.

#DailyChicken #ChickensOfInstagram #freer

I don’t know if I’d be into having my boyfriend stand over me like this when I was in the bath, but hey, chickens be different. Cleopatra having a dust bath while Shanti the rooster watches over her. Very, very closely.

#DailyChicken #Ch

It’s so hot!! I got these guys out of the hoop house in the nick of time, but even out in the breeze the beating sun is unbearable. I stretched a huge tarp as a sunshade today and it’s much nicer. I crawled under to test and it is cooler.

Coop move! Silkies are all “what?” over the grass. It’s so hot. Haaaawt.
#dailychicken #chickensofinstagram #chickentractor

Close. So close.
#DailyChicken #ChickenBedtime #FreeRange #Chicks #ChickenCoop #ChickensOfInstagram

Find the #Pig. Just a black pig having a lie down after breakfast and becoming invisible.

#PasturedPigs #BlackBerkshires #ElectricFence

The youngest chick on the go is at large in the big chicken world with mama (clearly no biological relation)

#DailyChicken #ChickensOfInstagram #Silkies #motherhentouring

Pine tree date! These two, perching in the pine tree.

#dailychicken #chickensofinstagram #freerangechickens #heritagechickenscanada

I love the tiny pearls of dew that decorate the edges of leaves in the morning

#windowbox

Mulch party! I laid down paper feed sacks with leaves and chips and wood on top, so that drew a crowd. They would scratch in it, and then look at the paper beneath like they were disappointed. That’s not what they usually get for scratching lea

It’s perching hour! The chickens like to cluster up after breakfast for a roost and a preen.
#dailychicken #ChickensOfInstagram #freerangechickensarehappychickens

These are both very sensitive hens so I didn’t move them out of the nest boxes when they went broody(same day) and all the other hens are livid, outraged, furious. “I’ve been laying eggs in THAT box for YEARS!” Daily indignant

Here come the chicks! Five little chicks of Cream Puff’s, and they’ve made the journey down the trail to the house, still a little uncomfortable to be so far from the familiar, but Mom’s coaching them.
#mamahen #dailychicken #chick

Drama in the hencoop today. Cheeks was pissed that the nest box was STILL occupied and there was much complaining. Hens have been laying in the corners of the coop. #adaptation

#dailychicken #layinghens #ameracuana #chickencoop #chickensofinstagram

Just chillin’ together under the coop... a little more alert now that I’m taking a picture.
#dailychicken #chickensofinstagram #freerangechickens

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