This Week on the Homestead

31 March 2017

Look! They're all outside! Together!  Can we call ourselves a homestead yet? What even makes a place a real homestead? Oh well, I'm calling us a homestead! Fake it till you make it! Anyway just thought I'd do a little re-cap of what went...

The First Week Or So With the Hens

25 March 2017

Michelle, one our Chanteclers Well. What a week it has been! I should preface this post by saying that the day after we brought the hens home Iris came down with the dreaded barfing flu and then, of course, I got it a few days later. Bah! So it...

Bringing Home the Hens

19 March 2017

You guys! We have chickens in our backyard! Man, it was not an easy week leading up to bringing them home - let me tell you. But first with the fun stuff!!  I want to share how we picked our chickens, where we got them, their hopes and dreams,...

We Have Chicken Coops + An Update!

4 March 2017

Yay!  Today we rounded up a bunch of free things people had set aside for us including not one, but two chicken coops, some pallets, hay bales, and some chicken paraphernalia. This fall when we mentioned we wanted to raise a few chickens...
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