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Marching into April…

If only, I tell myself, we would go to bed right at dusk, like the chickens, I tell myself, imagine how much better we ALL would feel …

These are exiting and nerve-wracking times in the political landscape – doubtless many of us are tired of hearing about the latest shenanigans from the stump. But I couldn’t help making the connection last week to the presidential hopefuls as I passed by the table in our bedroom this morning that is loaded withContinue reading “transPlanting”

Domestic Goddess in Feathers

It’s a horrible day to be a chicken – rainy, 40 degrees, and two more days of rain predicted. I just slipped off the chicken house roof (thankfully cushioned by a 3 foot wide raised garden bed covered in leaves, and not skewered by the garden stake that I broke in half with myContinue reading “Domestic Goddess in Feathers”

Forget It California – We Got This!

Or…maybe not. Not everything we humans try is a success. This is just a truth. But it’s the one that got away – the experiment that flopped – that fascinates me most. So I am likely to keep trying. Gardens of lettuce and spinach are growing inside at our house! That’s the good news. Continue reading “Forget It California – We Got This!”

Inspiration and ReBirth

For so many months this blog has lain dormant. Those who follow my writing know that my other blog has taken the bulk of my attention during the past year (embracing chaos.net, stories about life with our special needs young adult son Owen). If there is a “bulk” of anything so stretched and scattered as myContinue reading “Inspiration and ReBirth”

Graduation!

Awaiting the festivities. Empty classrooms– (wasn’t it only yesterday they were seeds?) The graduating class lines up– — The procession (“Pomp and Circumstance”)– Entering the workforce— Wishing you happy moments waking up your gardens!

Chicken Tunnels!!

I find something to post about nearly every day now, as spring is springing! In my ongoing search for a way to combine suburban life and with chickens, I stumbled on Chicken Tunnels – chicken tunnels are hot!! Everyone’s posting about Chicken Tunnels! Or maybe that was last year, and I’m behind the curve. Here isContinue reading “Chicken Tunnels!!”

Flowers for Chickens and Living Forage

Take a Course at Forested! First of all, I must let you know about my friend LincolnSmith’s workshops series at his forest teaching garden, Forested, this spring – here’s the link! https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/14cd4a6cf3709800 Flowers for Chickens? Why? This idea is totally stolen from an inspiring website I looked at and have not been able to relocate.Continue reading “Flowers for Chickens and Living Forage”

Tomato Trauma

I have a son who loves plastic pots with an love that is really obsession. To him only the pot is real, certainly not what is in the pot. And so when I found the transplanted tomato seedling dumped out upside down again this morning, I wasn’t actually surprised or even outraged., although I didContinue reading “Tomato Trauma”

Winter Babies

Past time. My neighbor Mrs. Q. has had her seeds planted since early February. Maybe January. Not that we are competing. I did get mine in while it was still barely February. It’s easy to waste time looking backwards, wishing you had already done something, or done it better, so I congratulated myself onContinue reading “Winter Babies”