Interplanting for Maximum Harvest

picture by Julie Interplanting sounds fancy, but it just means planting different things together. Like, instead of planting only corn, you planted spinach in between the corn stalks. And the corn shades heat-hating spinach from the hot summer sun. That would be the...

Protecting Young Chickens Outside

Housing baby chicks can be stressful and expensive.  So, TL and I use abandoned dog cages.  While the weather is cold, said cages are kept in the garage under a lamp (read: lamp with very energy inefficient bulb of any kind.) When the weather is warm, I recommend...