by Daisy | Jun 1, 2014 | Fencepost, Reviews
A handful of home farm staples, treats, and neat stuff I’ve run across in my travels across the web this week. Sale Chicken Crewel Kit from Williams-Sonoma, USA made. Adorable. $19.99 was $34.95. At $28 this isn’t cheap, but since I’m tired of cheap...
by Ivory Soap | May 28, 2014 | Fencepost, Reviews
We’ve learned the hard way, that a “free range” chicken is pretty much a “dead” chicken. Out of 15 chickens we’ve owned. We have 4 left. Four were predator deaths. One was old age. Six were killed by their own stupidity:...
by Daisy | May 26, 2014 | Fencepost, Reviews
Gayla Trail of You Grow Girl is offering 15% off her t-shirt designs with code MYSHIRT2014 at checkout. My fav is the Microfarmer T. FREE DOWNLOAD for Kindle owners with Amazon Prime: Permaculture: A Step by Step Guide for Home Permaculture, by Wesley Dios. SEEDS FOR...
by Ivory Soap | May 21, 2014 | Conversation, Fencepost
This spring, for our “nature walks” (read: nature drives, preggers…wait, read: pointing out nature periodically when we’re driving somewhere else), we are tracking the blooms of the season. Here is the order of appearance. Week One 1....
by Daisy | May 19, 2014 | Fencepost, Reviews
I love “deals” pages on blogs, and I’ve been looking for some that focus on home farming and sustainability with little success. So I thought why not do one myself? Here are a few tempting deals I’ve seen around the net, specially geared for...
by Daisy | May 15, 2014 | Conversation, Fencepost
About a week or two ago, the daily egg count began to take a dive. I might collect five or six eggs one day, next to none the next day. A couple of days I literally collected no eggs. Some days several, some days one or two. I found a couple of half eaten eggs and...
