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Week 2 of Garden Expansion
Tomorrow will either be week 2 or week 3 I’ve …Read More »
Progress On The Garden Expansion
The landscape fabric came on Friday! Bill had already chopped, …Read More »
Growing Corn in the Basement
My mom used to say, “Your ears are so dirty …Read More »
Drip Irrigation Startup
One of the first things that needs to be done …Read More »An Almost Battery Tragedy
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Category Archives: Homestead
Potato Shaker / Soil Sifter
Last year I made a sifter for sifting compost. It’s just some 2×4’s screwed together with a piece of 1/2″ hardware cloth stapled to one side. The rectangle is 35 x 27, with the two shorter sides of the rectangle … Continue reading
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Lost Dog, again.
Sam met Taz at work and it was love at first site. Since work romances can get awkward Sam decided to adopt Taz. Taz was so named because of the collar he was wearing when he was found wandering the … Continue reading
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Fertigation
Ever since installing drip irrigation to our gardens, it has greatly reduced the amount of time spent each day watering. One of the things I wanted to add from the start was a fertigation system. We currently have 5 zones … Continue reading
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The Littles are Sleeping!
They are all asleep, and that lasted about 10 minutes. They came home on May 7th for comparison here is how they fit in that box back then. They now take up the entire box and stand about as tall … Continue reading
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I Accidentally Bought Another Chainsaw
Ooops! I saw a Jonsered CS 2240 on Ebay. Ever since my 24 year old CS 2050 hasn’t been running well, I’ve wanted another mid size chainsaw. This 2240 showed up on one of my searches. There were no bids, … Continue reading
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EcoGlow 20 Safety 600 Brooder from Binsea
I first heard about this brooder from The Chicken Chick you can find her webpage here https://the-chicken-chick.com/ Years ago what brought me to her page was poop, I’ve been a fan ever since. While some of the things she does … Continue reading
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What happens when you go to the store
It started innocently, we were working outside and the rain was coming which ended working outside. I suggested we run to the feed store to get chick feed. The decision had been made to increase the flock size by hatching … Continue reading
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Update on the chicken feed
We started adding in the new layer and meat bird dry foods the week of March 13, 2023. Up to this point we had been getting 1 – 3 eggs per day and many days there would be no eggs … Continue reading
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Update on the bedding
The bedding has been down now for 3 weeks and while official spring is a ways down the calendar we have already had seriously wet weeks. So far I have to say I’m really pleased. I put it down after … Continue reading
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Change is for the birds re-deux
I’m a little late to the party but here we go. We had been noticing that we just were not getting the eggs like we had been. Now there are reasons for this: Lazy. We just were not checking the … Continue reading
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