February 28, 2010 Visit With Hens-Children and Chickens Our youngest granddaughter visited with the hens for the first time this weekend. At 20 months, she’d had no previous experience with chickens and…
February 23, 2010 Monterey Pines-Beautiful and Dangerous Our little community sits on hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. What really makes this seaside cluster of homes unique, is that the houses in…
February 17, 2010 Harvesting Worm Castings from Bins I finally got around to harvesting worm compost from my worm bins on this beautiful sunny day. I’ve begun spring planting and I need…
February 10, 2010 Storing Rainwater for Summer Gardening We’ve gotten some blessed rain in California this year, thanks to El Nino conditions, and it looks like we may break a four-year drought….
February 7, 2010 Chickens Have Friends We’ve had our six hens since they were three days old. Like our own children, their personalities have pretty much stayed the same since…
February 5, 2010 Hen Talk I’ve been working on setting up another website on chickens. I don’t want to tell you the domain name yet as I’m not proud…
February 3, 2010 Artichokes Harvested I planted seeds of artichokes last winter in tiny six-packs. I really never expected them to sprout because most gardeners feel it is best…