I hope you all had a wonderful holiday. Ours turned out to be a beautifully warm, fun, peaceful and relaxing day. See you next year.
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A Chicken, a Coyote and Two Baby Bunnies
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…
Read MoreThe 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…
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 MoreTraveling
I am on the vineyard with Tom. I’ve been posting lots of photos to my twitter feed. You can find it in the sidebar. I will be back on Monday!
Read MoreProtecting California’s Grapes with Raptors
We got up early Saturday morning to get Tom on the road before the morning fog burned off. He’s leaving for 2 months to work on a vineyard with his falcons. Yea, read that again. Vineyard, falcons… Pretty amazing right? A few months ago our plans were just an idea. A risk. A leap we…
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 