Hello friends! I hope you are all keeping well. It was first a snowy and then a very cold week here in Minneapolis. I had a bike commute adventure on Friday, that’s for sure. In the morning it was -17F/-27C with a wind chill around -28F/-33C. With all the right layers and the effort of …
Category: Chickens
Winter
The days may be getting incrementally longer, but we are headed into deep winter now. I always find the clear, brilliant blue skies of January a sort of consolation for the cold that reaches fingers deep into my lungs and bones. I’ve been on vacation for a week now and have one more week left. …
Interdependence
Well it finally happened, the Dashwoods and the Nuggets have become a flock. Just as there was no big fuss when we introduced the Nuggets to the Dashwoods, only a refusal to associate with each other, the merging was without fuss too. One day they were foraging on separate sides of the garden, then on …
Happy Samhain!
Gift from a friend We finally got frost a little over a week ago. Not a below freezing kind of frost, more of a close enough to kill the tomatoes and squash vines frost. The asters still have a few flowers and the sage and oregano are still hanging in there too. We are going …
Almost Frosty
tsp for scale Gardening season is winding down. We almost had frost Saturday morning. Almost. It has been such a warm autumn, frost is late in coming. This has allowed me and James some extra time to make repairs to the chicken coop roof, and for me to harvest one small zucchini from the garden. …
