Garden Fuss

Hello, future flock parents! 🐔 If you've been contemplating jumping onto the chicken keeping bandwagon, now is the perfect time. We're thrilled to announce that we'll be welcoming new and aspiring flock parents throughout the year. Since 2022, all us egg and chicken enthusiasts have been on a rollercoaster. Seriously, remember the egg and chicken catastrophe when a dozen eggs cost more than a couple of gallons of gas due to the highly pathogenic Avian Influenza? Yeah, that still hasn't quite resolved itself. . . And who could forget Chicken Feed'gate? I know I haven't! It was a challenging time for both urban and rural chicken keepers, making baking and breakfast a real adventure. On the brighter side, the hilarious egg bootlegger videos on TikTok and Instagram have been giving me life since then, and kept all our spirits high. They've truly given my little homestead hope to continue supporting our neighbors through uncertain times. 🌞 Truly, there's n...

We've enjoyed a very warm and almost over-warm autumn so far which has afforded us an opportunity to be very lax in completing end of the year tasks such as putting the garden to bed and yard clean up. Another necessary *task* or chore has been to winterize our chicken coop.  There's been nothing like seeing the neighbors shake their heads at us while we're out hollering at each other to hold down the plastic tarp and grab the proper sized bits and screws to make you think twice about whether or not we've lost our ever loving minds with this venture.  Of course we pick the windiest days and the oddest hours.... They ask us " What are you doing now, we thought your were done building the coop ". Our answer is " Yes, we're done building the coop, but we need to make sure their house is buttoned up and prepared for the winter just like ours ." This assuredly garners much side eye and breathy OK's from the neighbors perspectives and ours too. ...