The gardens are growing!

This time of year is great! It is when the garden is just beginning to express it’s full potential. We have eaten our first cucumber as seen on Tim’s head. The first squash are really coming along and the lettuce seed forest is almost ready to get seeds from.

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Hillside 2010

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Corb Blund at Hillside on Sunday!

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Our Home Aquaponics System!

Will Allen, founder of Growing Power

This past May we went to visit the urban farm Growing Power. Growing Power specializes in vermicomposting and aquaponics. Vermicomposting is composting with worms and aquaponics is a hybrid between aquaculture and hydroponics. They are pioneers in this area and Will Allen, the founder of Growing Power has been [...]

The 50 Percent Rule

Young French Copper Maran cockerel

Our little chicks from May hare growing into large, free-ranging, self-sufficient birds. The Copper Marans are actually better at foraging that our Chanteclers are it seems. They are also a bit more flighty than our Chanteclers, but I am hoping that will change over time. This batch of chicks is [...]

Gone but not forgotten - Moog

It is now official…Moog is gone. She has been gone almost a week and there is no sign of her. Last Wednesday she was in her pond for the day. I checked on her about six o’clock in the evening and she was fine. When I went back a couple of hours later she was [...]