Currently growing in Southern California
The rainy season is here! Bright green grass now covers the ground. The grapevines are rapidly losing their leaves. A fire in the wood burning stove is now a nightly necessity and we have swapped our summer clothes for winter ones. This is my favorite time of year. Around here we get rain that…
Read MoreGuess who started laying eggs a couple days ago! We have found about a half dozen in the last couple days. So exciting!
Read MoreWhen 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 MoreHis alarm blazes Sweet Home Alabama every morning at 5:30 am. He is so quick to turn it off that I rarely wake to hear it. 45 minutes later his old blue and silver GMC truck rumbles to life. The dog, hearing the engine, pulls himself up from his place by the fire and trots…
Read MoreLook what I found in the compost pile this morning! Our first chicken egg! My excitement at this awesome find is mixed with sadness because this means its time for LadyHawke to go back to the farm she came from. Her chicks don’t need her anymore and she is ready to move on. Anything exciting…
Read MoreThe rush of the morning is over. My daughter has been delivered safety to school. My husband, long gone to work at an early hour. I sit at the kitchen table and take in the quiet of the morning. My house is silent except for the sound of our neighborhood sparrows and wrens softly chirping…
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Shoots and Roots 