Gardening and Small Scale Livestock
- Bringing Spring
- The Little Red Hen Moves
- Well, let's not brood about it
We have a hen that has gone broody so we're allowing her to do what is coming naturally - sit on and hatch out eggs.
- If it's not broke, don't fix it.
- It's Later Than You Think: Order Garden Seeds Now
One good reason to order your garden seeds now: last year, seed sellers reporting running our by March.
- Plant 'em if you've got 'em
Spring is months away. One way to get a little bit of spring going is to start some seeds for greens as a window sill garden.
- White House Garden Enters New Season!
The White House has now installed grow tunnels on the beds in the garden!
- Horseradish: From Root to Plate
How to cook, prepare and keep horseradish.
- Resolved Not To Have Resolutions
A final look at the year.
- Catalog Time...Again
Planning for choosing seeds for the garden.
- No chix-sicles at Chez Siberia
Time to move the chickens inside for the winter from their outdoor pasture traveling pens.
- Second Chances: Not Dead Yet in the Garden
More on fall gardening: frosts
- Is There a Coffee Table Book in Aunty Toby's Future?
Amazing civil engineering bahavior in chickens.
- Are We There Yet? Gardening Means Not Being Let Off the Hook in the Fall
There is still time enough to do gardening in the fall, if you plan well in the spring and summer.
- Forget Wall Street: Invest in Potatoes
Potatoes are a great investment of garden space.
- WMD: Zucchini Time
Good things to do with zucchini.
- Egg-sactly What We Were Looking For
Everything you ever wanted to know about eggs.
- Goodbye to chickens...Hello to chicken
Getting chickens into the freezer.
- I'll Have Some Mustard With My Slugs, Please...
A plant that seems to protect other garden plants from slugs - by attracting the slugs to itself.
- Aunt Toby Hits The Big Time
A photo Aunt Toby took is now being used to promote the Philadelphia Flower Show.
- Keeping Up With the Taters..
What to watch for when growing potatoes to know what is happening under the ground.
- Loose Ends and Housekeeping
Updates on the chicks, strawberries, et al.
- Want Peppers in Northern Growing Zones? Give 'em a Hot Foot!
How to grow peppers in short season and cool areas.
- Chicks on Grass!!
First experiences with putting chicks out on grass.
- Is cheap, confinement raised meat lighting the fuse on the next flu pandemic?
How confinement raised pork is connected to H1N1.
- Early Frost: The Gardeners' Blues
Fighting early spring frosts.
- How Some Hot Little Chicks are Going to Heal the Land at Chez Siberia
Planning for moving chicks out onto the pasture.
- What's a Weed? What's My Seed?
For beginning gardeners, the hardest thing is that they cultivate, plant the seeds and then all sorts of things come up. How can you identify what YOU planted versus the weed seeds that are in the soil and are germinating?
- Soil Warming Up!
It's worth it to cover garden beds with plastic, but the right kind is important.
- Win two, lose two: 4-18 'fahm' report
Early spring updates for the garden, the chicks and the bee hives.
- Fowl Deeds
Finding out information on local laws on raising chickens.
- Chick Cam! Moving Away From 'teh' cute
Episode 2 of raising chicks.
- It's Chick Cam!!!!
Starting out with chicks.
- The Urban Chicken Sets Up Light Housekeeping
How to choose chickens to raise.
- End of March Garden Report
Updates from the March garden.
- Sometimes Hope and Dirt Can Use a Hand
Here's a chart which will help you decide when to plant your seeds to get the best germination.
- Hope is a thing....with dirt
There's life in the early spring garden, even in Zone 4; time to plan so that next spring you have something you can harvest!
- Get Growing!
how to start seeds
- Tomorrow's Garden: Today! Part 2
Next steps on getting ready for a spring garden, even if you are in the winter.
- The Return of the Urban Chicken
Raising chickens in urban areas is the hot ticket item right now and into the near future - here are a few things to think about if you are considering it.
- Thin Thighs in Thirty Days™ OR, Tomorrow’s Garden: Today! Part 1
First Lessons on getting an area ready for a garden.
- Urban Gardening, or, How to Survive When You Aren’t a Homeowner and Don’t Have a Lawn to Rip Up
Growing your own, making your shelter more energy efficient - these things are not just for homeowners. Renters can take some control too.
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