Tag: Chicken Tractor
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Good Neighbors (and Doing Something Right)
If people don’t occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you’re doing something wrong. John Gierach When we started looking for a small holding to be our homestead, this property was not our first choice. More than once we saw the listing for it, but we could tell it was going to be a…
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Size Matters
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. Elanore Roosevelt Consider this a public service announcement. Not all chickens are the same. When we first began our chicken journey we started our small. Just a few chickens. Except that the few chickens became 17 chickens. Chicken math.…
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Homesteading is for Lovers
“Where there is love there is life.” Mahatma Gandhi Happy Valentines Day! It is 53˚here in NE Ohio and forecasted to be 65˚tomorrow. The unseasonable temperatures might tempt you into starting your seeds early and for some of you that would be ok. Depending on your growing zone you may need to wait it out…
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Winter Weeding? (and More from the Homestead)
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. Anton Chekhov This week I found myself doing a task I normally wouldn’t expect for the second week of January, 2023. Weeding the garden. That’s right. I spent an hour or so this week on my hands and knees pulling weeds from our garden…
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