Shopping at the farmers market has a way of changing your mind about your food. Some incredible lessons emerged from that first visit, which started my own personal food revolution. My first trip to our local farmers market was an eye opener in many ways. Before this experience I had never ventured away from my beloved grocery store, which contained…
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When my husband and I first started dating we bonded over the fact that we both had the same favorite color -orange- and the same favorite animal -the octopus.- Full Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. We used to flip through my Jacques Cousteau books and marvel at the ingenious and alien little eight legged creatures. After needle felting a wonderful…
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If you bought chickens for the fresh eggs and quickly found yourself pampering them more than your dog, this post is for you. We’ve been keeping chickens for years, and we have a lot of friends that keep chickens. Our plan from the start with our birds was to raise them for their eggs and when they stopped laying, they’d…
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I made the impulsive decision to bring home an English Angora rabbit, and then chaos ensued. She’s fluffy, she’s saucy, she’s hyper, and she never ever stops pooping. She’s Dolly, my English Angora rabbit. Dolly came into my life due to an unhealthy adoration of all things knitted. When you knit as much as I do, buying yarn week after week gets…
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I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about what it’s like to run an urban homestead, and what my day to day looks like. It turns out a lot of my homesteader friends have been getting the same questions, so we decided to put together a series called, “A Day in the Life…” showing the reality of farming and…
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I was stooped over in the hot sun, soil up to my elbows and sweat running down my brow. Earthworms wriggled at my fingertips as I pushed tiny seeds into neat little rows. I was in my element, my own little world. It may as well have been miles away, on a quaint country road, instead of smack dab in…
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We have several new additions to our little urban homestead! I wanted to hatch out some more chicks this year to add to our flock, but we can’t have a rooster here in the city, so we needed to score some hatching eggs elsewhere. We used shipped eggs last year and the majority of them didn’t hatch, so we wanted…
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I never see it coming. I’ll be going along minding my business, when out of nowhere I’ll develop a kinship with one of the critters, and it’s always the one I would least expect. Not the sweet, loving, shy birds that most people would like. Not the cuddly ones that demand attention and follow my every footstep. The ones that…
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Upstate New York has been positively dumped on by snow clouds this week. [sc name=”AFFILIATE” ] The chickens have been cooped up for over a week and were starting to get mighty bored. I bought them a flock block, which helped to keep them from picking on each other. They still needed a bit of recreation and fresh air. Chickens…
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