It is supposed to snow this week, but the back garden bees were flying in a recent patch o’ sunshine… Katy helped Huz plant some peas in the alley-patch. And the new chickens (Wyandotte, Wyandotte, no-tail, and Cuckoo the Cuckoo Maran, in the latest iteration of backyard coop design….this coop breaks down into flat panels [...]

The best thing about the holidays?  Well, lots of things, but I think on the top of my list is the food, and for festive comestibles you can’t beat Eggs, Sugar, Cream and Bourbon.  Nothing warms the heart’s cockles quite like a quick snoot of Kentucky’s finest when you are cross country skiing in new [...]

The chicks turned 6 weeks old this weekend, and have been busting out of their accommodations in the greenhouse.  So, since they are fully feathered in and at a decent weaning age, I rehomed them out at my friend Clare’s farm in Gaston this weekend.  They will live in a meat bird pen and get [...]

So in addition to baby chicks we (my husband and I) have also added meat rabbits to the menagerie.  In my continuing struggle to reconcile my love for animals with my love for eating them and taking responsibility for that, this is going to be a toughie, because really, rabbits are about as adorable as [...]

Or in this case, eggs.  My latest experiment in backyard husbandry:  take a non-egglaying, eggbox hogging, cranky broody hen and give her her own eggbox in her own cage with 12 gorgeous, fresh laid, rainbow colored fertile eggs.  Three weeks later…. 9 adorable chicks, two unhatched duds, and one missing egg.  Guess I can’t begrudge [...]