I will be spending a bit more time counting my chickens from now on.
If you were watching the Chicken Cam over the weekend, you saw chicken math in operation. On Saturday, I brought home the newest additions to my flock. And now I’d like to introduce them to you.
Meet Marigold and… Continue reading
My kitchen garden has changed a lot since I last gave you a tour in April. The early spring crops like radishes and spinach are past their season, the warm weather crops are growing like crazy, and we are eating more salad around… Continue reading
Do you remember that spinach in my garden that I showed you back in March? We planted it last fall and then put a little pop-up greenhouse over it in November. It spent the… Continue reading
One of my go-to kitchen garden meals any time of the year is vegetable fried rice. The basic ingredients are things I always have on hand: vegetables, rice, and eggs. It’s super easy to pull together, especially if using leftover rice. And, best of all, the basic recipe is easily adapted to whatever… Continue reading
Things are a whole lot greener than when I took you on a photo tour of my kitchen garden in March. And it seems like every day there is something new to harvest from the garden. In addition to spinach and chives, which we… Continue reading
The CSA Cookbook is out and I have a review, a recipe, and an extra cookbook to give away!
Read to the end to find out how you can win a signed copy of The CSA Cookbook by Linda Ly, author of the award-winning blog, Garden Betty.
There comes a time every spring when I go to pull something out of the basement freezer and say to myself, “Holy crap, I have a lot of vegetables in here.”
That time was last week. We just had the first fresh spinach out of the garden… Continue reading
The calendar says spring is here and Mother Nature seems to agree. We’ve spent most of our free time this week (when not watching NCAA basketball) prepping the kitchen garden to get it ready for the growing season ahead.
Shoveling compost is not my favorite chore, but this is the time… Continue reading
Petunia
Aren’t chickens a lot of work? I get that question a lot about my three backyard hens. And my answer always is, “No, not really.”
Don’t get me wrong. As the caretaker of your backyard flock, you will have responsibilities for the health and well-being of your birds. But if you’ve had… Continue reading
Before embarking on your own suburban homestead adventure, it’s important to ask yourself the question raised in the title of this post.
I personally think that people should have just as much right to have pet chickens as they do dogs… Continue reading
