Mason Bee House

Mason Bee House

I’ve always kept my distance from bees, I’ll blame it on a horror movie that I stupidly watched by myself when I was home sick from school. I’ve never been stung before, nor do I really care to purposely put myself in a situation where I might be....
Fierce

Fierce

Coco *loves* the hens….she considers them, “things to chase around” — the hens don’t like Coco much and normally squawk, freak out and run away. Lately, Fireflapper, our golden sex link hen, created a new strategy. “Aha! a chicken...
Our first egg

Our first egg

We have it marked on our calendar the very first day we came home with the 1 week old baby chicks, to mark their “birthday” but also to give us a countdown of when we can expect our first eggs from the hens.  It usually takes around 6 months before the...
The Fight for Clean Air

The Fight for Clean Air

The Problem Mercury is a potent neurotoxin. For a child or fetus, exposure to even a little of this toxic heavy metal can harm the brain and nervous system. Coal-fired power plants account for nearly half the mercury emissions that pollute our waterways and find their...
Click and Cluck

Click and Cluck

My husband’s been working hard the past couple of weeks building the new Chicken Palace for our 5 birds who have quickly outgrown the coop we bought locally. Scott designed the entire coop on paper and then on transfering the plan to Google Sketchup for a 3D...