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  • Easy to Make DIY Chicken/Poultry Feeder

    Easy to Make DIY Chicken/Poultry Feeder

    Going to show you how some PVC pipes can come together easily and make a weather-proof chicken feeder.

  • Gardening With Less Water

    Gardening With Less Water

    Book review of gardening with less water, low-tech, low cost techniques, use up to 90% less water in your garden.

  • The Story of a Seed

    The Story of a Seed

    This is the story of a seed. How it sprouts up to be a seedling and then into a grown plant.

  • The Best DIY Soil Sifter

    The Best DIY Soil Sifter

    Our first #soil sifter. If you are tired of dealing with large particles in your soil this little #DIY soil sifter is the answer. We use it for creating a more beneficial seed starting soil. I’m sure we will use it in the #garden more this summer for a multitude of reasons. Just remember…

  • Beautiful Garden Seeds

    Beautiful Garden Seeds

    Garden Seeds I dream about beautiful garden seeds do you? It’s in the air, do you feel it? There is frost in the forecast and a tingle in my fingers. The garden catalogs are here and decisions are being made. Well, at least for the most part, I’m not making any decisions. Like I…

  • The First OG Egg Mobile

    The First OG Egg Mobile

    We have a group of hens that lay beautiful colored eggs, from green, blue, and different colors of brown. Lately, our girls are laying more eggs then what we can eat. I’ve done a lot to store eggs such as water glassing them, I make hard boiled eggs, make egg sandwiches, the list goes…

  • Oh Sugar! Guide to Canning Sugar

    Oh Sugar! Guide to Canning Sugar

    On our last grocery haul it was time for us to go stock up on the sugar. I like to have a stockpile on consumables such as flour and sugar. There are many reasons for stocking up on these kitchen necessities. One, you have the items when you need them. Two, this is a…

  • Learning About the Chicken Chores

    Learning About the Chicken Chores

    Learning about the chicken chores, it’s funny how 14 cute little chickens can take up so much time and attention. That is exactly what our hens are doing with Ron and I. They are close to the house, maybe to close but I can enjoy them from the living room window so I’m ok…

  • Adding Aloe Vera to the Chicken Yard

    Adding Aloe Vera to the Chicken Yard

    I have a project that we are working toward setting up in the Spring. Setting up a food forest for our chickens. Planting grains and seeds in their yard. We also have some of our orchard in the yard, it will offer shade to the other plants plus the chickens. I want other greens…

  • The Tale of Two Gates Leading to the Chickens

    The Tale of Two Gates Leading to the Chickens

    In the beginning we didn’t realize what two gates would do for us or our chickens. Like I mentioned in an earlier blog, you can check it out here. We really wanted to free range our chickens however, not all of our property is fenced and every neighbor has dogs and they don’t always…