Garden Fuss

OUR 2023 SCHEDULE HAS BEEN UPDATED & UPLOADED! So what are you waiting for? BOOK NOW!   If you have been wondering how to jump onto the chicken keeping bandwagon you are in luck my friends! We'll be taking new and wannabe flock parents through mid August 2023. After 2022's egg and chicken catastrophe... You know the one, where a dozen eggs cost more than a couple gallons of petrol due to a highly pathogenic Avian Influenza? How about Chicken Feed'gate?  It was pretty scary out in these urban and rural streets when it came to baking or breakfast. .. On the brighter and dare I say sunnier side of things, the hilarious egg bootlegger videos of TikTok and Instagram are still fresh in my minds eye and gave me hope enough to continue offering support to my fellow neighbors as we live through very uncertain times.   Honestly, you could't have chosen a better time to get on board with growing your very own backyard flock and I'll hold your hand along the way. ABOUT TH...

As  cliché  as it may sound, I have been very busy.... I know I know, if someone is committed to something as inspiring as a blog on living a wholesome homesteading life and providing practical and tried and true DIY tips they should be better at time management. Well,  apparently  I am not that person of late. Why? Well, life really does take over sometimes, and then there were these four new little lives that have taken up residence in, and then directly outside of our home. In other words, Hurray for us, We Have Chickens!!!!!!! Soon to be laying hens to be specific.  Well, this journey into raising our own layers has been a true labor of love, a testament to friendship, and the realization of a very long six-year dream. It all started this spring, April to be exact; after the new Urban Ag laws for Minneapolis were amended and put into affect. A crew of three which included me, my daughter, and her close friend (he’s a carpenter) vigilantly researched...