Guess what I caught trying to break into the chicken coop last night? A coyote! A couple weeks ago one of our hens disappeared. We searched the orchard and didn’t find a single feather. Our neighbors hadn’t seen her either but one did warn us that a coyote had been hanging around so we figured…
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The Hen and the Rooster
Earlier this week I went out to gather up the escaped chickens from the orchard and found them down the driveway chattering away with a beautiful black rooster! This rooster was very interested in my girls and followed us back to the coop. I didn’t let him in the pen and tried to shoo him…
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The chickens have gotten so big! It seems like only yesterday they were little chicks. I guess in the same way, this pregnancy has flown by too. We have about a month left before the flock is old enough to begin laying eggs and a month or so after that I will have a new…
Read MoreGrowing Growing Garden
The garden is moving along beautifully. We are harvesting a couple tiny sweet strawberries every other day. I’m picking radishes almost daily as well. Our daughter loves to eat the peas right off the vine so none have made it back to the kitchen yet. They go straight from the vine into her mouth. I love…
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Have your allergies been bad this year? Ours are horrible! I don’t know if it’s the climate in Sonoma County or if this is just a bad pollen year, but we have been suffering big time. I bought a new allergen hepa filter vacuum and it has helped a lot already. I didn’t realize how…
Read MoreIntroducing the Chicks
When we moved to Sonoma county I really hoped that somehow we would be able to have chickens again. Even though they ate most of my ground vegetables and pounds of tomatoes I still loved watching them scratch the ground for bugs and fight over a pile of greens. Thankfully, we were lucky enough to…
Read MoreA Day in the Life: Backyard City Chickens
What did you do on the last weekend of the Summer? We made a video! This is our first video made exclusively on the iphone. The volume is a little wonky in the beginning (you will have to turn the volume down after the first few seconds), but otherwise I think it came out great!…
Read MorePhoto Friday – In The Garden
I think we have a rooster on our hands. How many tomatoes do you see in this picture? I counted 25.
Read MoreLittle Chickens in the City
“Here Chickies, here chick chick”, I rattle the jar of chick feed, “Hi my little Chickies.” I used to wake up in the morning thinking of the dishes I would have to wash before breakfast or how much I hate waking up alone when Tom has already left for work at 5:30. Now, I wake…
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Shoots and Roots 