How are you doing during this crazy, generation defining time? As for me, I still work full time. My husband and I own a retail, brick and mortar travel agency. This has been my career for more than half of my life. We have built our company through so many challenges. We were here when […]
Keeping Chickens
Successfully Introducing New Chickens To Your Flock – Or, Not.
Introducing new chickens is not my favorite thing about having chickens. They’re SO MEAN to each other. It’s so hard to watch! Unfortunately I’ve had several rounds of introducing new birds because I’ve also had several rounds of my new girls getting gotten by predators. Is the predator activity related to how well the new […]
Chicken Predators
I’ve lost so many birds to predators lately! I lost one to probably a hawk way back a long time ago and then I never lost another bird until my plymouth died of something a couple of months ago. I think then is when the problem started. I was puzzled as to how to get […]
Homestead Evolution
I’ve had chickens for about a year now. I keep waiting for the big occasion to come up on Facebook memories and I’m just sure it will be any day now. (I just looked back on the blog and it looks like the first post I wrote about them was on May 28, 2018..so over […]
Garden Goals for 2019
If you follow my page on Facebook, you might remember that I LOVE going to Mother Earth News Fair every year. I love sitting in classes and workshops all day learning about these hobbies that fascinate me. Every year I use it as a time to evaluate what I’m doing gardening and sustainability-wise and what […]