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Lessons from the garden
This was my first year with a real vegetable garden, so I figured I would share some lessons I learned with you all. So, we didn’t start off with this problem. I feel like we were quite organized and controlled when buying our plants. I believe we bought 8 cherry tomato plants, 8 regular tomato,…
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Don’t plant your vegetables the day before….
…The first hottest day of the year. Yeah, I did that accidentally, as I was so excited to have the garden built and have some small vegetable plants in my hand. We bought the plants from a local garden store the evening before, and the next morning I was out there with my string line…
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Chicken update
So, not everything has gone to plan with my chickens…but that is okay! In my last post I mentioned that I had two clutches of duck eggs being sat on, but I candled them multiple times and after a few weeks, it did not appear as if any of the eggs had been fertilized. I…
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We tried to sell eggs…
And failed miserably! But let me explain myself: So before our chicken murder disaster, we had 8 laying chickens, and were getting about 2 dozen eggs a week. I really want the chickens to pay for their own feed, and I want other people to be able to use the fresh eggs, especially with how…
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A very difficult decision…
So I have delayed writing this post for quite a while now, not even wanting to include it in my blog, but I really want this blog to be educational, mostly from our own personal successes and mistakes. So, here goes: We adopted our dog, Dozer, last October. He was 5 months old at that…
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Building our chicken coop!
I started as most girls do: Pinterest. When my husband told me that we would be building our own chicken coop instead of buying, that is exactly where I went. Granted, if you type in “chicken coop” in Pinterest, you get everything from the 2 chicken hut to a 50 chicken palace. But I had…
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Chickens for the Homestead
I have owned chickens for about 3 years now, and I haven’t regretted it once. They are fun, quirky, and sociable creatures. They are relatively easy to care for, and add some humor to your life on those quiet, summer days. As long as you have the correct setup and care for chickens, I would…
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Starting our adventure
Have you ever heard someone say “I don’t want to know where my food comes from, all I know is that it comes from the freezer section”? Well, I grew up saying that as I would pass the cute cows grazing in the fields, and watch the occasional combine harvest a field. See, I grew…
Roots N Boots 