30/09/2017 30/09/2017

First fire of fall

13/09/2017 13/09/2017

Slipper season!?

12/09/2017 12/09/2017

Pig pranks

01/09/2017 01/09/2017

What's that white pompom doing with those chickens?

Silkies, mothering other breeds, Ameracaunas, free range

31/08/2017 31/08/2017

Sunbathing and pig lunch

30/08/2017 30/08/2017

Movin' on up, up, up

28/06/2017 28/06/2017

Oreos and the Cobra mom

The guinea hen is definitely setting.No idea how many eggs she´s got. Easily 20. Perhaps a chicken egg got in there too. In fact, she could be due any day. I don´t know about guinea terms, but she´s got to be close.And since there´s only three birds walking about yet, I suspect those three are the boys, and the other hen has found her own nest site somewhere in the woods. May she walk out healthy one day with a trail of chicks.

31/05/2017 31/05/2017

The tick horror show

14/05/2017 14/05/2017

Volunteer Sunflowers

14/04/2017 14/04/2017

Pigs

09/04/2017 09/04/2017

First Real Garden Day

I felt like I should start gardening like I mean it, so I put some brain work in in the winter planning the planting schedule for starts and direct sowing, and it sure feels good now to have a schedule to follow.I mapped the garden in seven areas, for crop rotation, estimated how much of X thing I want to grow, and then calc'ed back/forward from frost date and made a calendar.

01/04/2017 01/04/2017

Round two, Piglets in the lead

14/03/2017 14/03/2017

Rare sighting: the bathing chicken

At the beginning of the winter when the chickens were first incarcerated in the greenhouse for the season, we prepared some bird baths.

01/03/2017 01/03/2017

Play structure day

19/02/2017 19/02/2017

Seedy Saturday!

17/02/2017 17/02/2017

Bedtime is nigh

Days went by. Weeks. Then one night, there were only two hens. One hen had figured it out! She turned out to be the precocious one of the three. More days passed, turning into two weeks.

09/02/2017 09/02/2017

Nor'easter

30/12/2016 30/12/2016

All growth

There is every reason to be completely incapacitated by depression. Natural systems and species are being destroyed, Syria is being destroyed by war, nations are falling apart, and society as a whole seems more incompetent than ever at correcting the course. I've been frightened for our fate, that feeling seems pretty darn appropriate, and I can't do a whole lot about it.