Animals
Every summer the vegetable harvest kicks into gear in mid-June and continues until the first frost. And every year it seems that what we get the most excited about is the first ripened tomato. I guess that of all the produce that we harvest or buy at market, there is nothing that can come close to a homegrown tomato bursting with juicy flavor. Finally this week our tomatoes have begun to ripen and oh, how wonderful they taste! Some of our cherry tomatoes ripened and split, so those were given to the chickens. 
Chickens love tomatoes. That is evident as the first handful hits the dirt and the girls scurry to pick them up and then run off to the far corners of their yard as fast as they can. Sharing is not one of their better qualities. When it comes to tomatoes, chickens are quite stingy.
- And Now A Word From Our Sponsor, The Tomato!
Spectacular, cool summer weather continues and I am happy as a pig in a pool! Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day with a couple of passing rain showers...short, rainbow-producing showers... Don't you just love rain when it is sunny? That kind...
- Land Spreading Out So Far And Wide....
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside! Hubbs and I often sing the old "Green Acres" song...only I'm singing the Eddie Albert part and he's singing Eva Gabor! There's something about the country... the smells, the sights, the peace...
- Vegetable Lovers
Our autumn-like weather has continued right through the weekend.I am told, however, that we are returning to summer later this week.For now, though, I am enjoying the cool nights...great sleeping weather! Friday's hay making was a big success.With...
- The Long And The Short Of Egg Production
Currently, we have about 30 layers....producing about 15 (plus or minus) eggs a day. We have a dozen more Rhode Island Red adolescents that will begin to lay later this winter. The amazing thing to me is the variety of color and size that we get in any...
- Garden Explosion!!
It seems like just yesterday, I was planting seeds in tiny pots in the greenhouse. Now, months later, cold weather is just a memory and the dog days of August are upon us, and those tiny seedlings are mature plants bursting with produce. Thirty tomato...
Animals
Chickens Love Tomatoes and So Do We!
Every summer the vegetable harvest kicks into gear in mid-June and continues until the first frost. And every year it seems that what we get the most excited about is the first ripened tomato. I guess that of all the produce that we harvest or buy at market, there is nothing that can come close to a homegrown tomato bursting with juicy flavor. Finally this week our tomatoes have begun to ripen and oh, how wonderful they taste! Some of our cherry tomatoes ripened and split, so those were given to the chickens. Chickens love tomatoes. That is evident as the first handful hits the dirt and the girls scurry to pick them up and then run off to the far corners of their yard as fast as they can. Sharing is not one of their better qualities. When it comes to tomatoes, chickens are quite stingy.
- And Now A Word From Our Sponsor, The Tomato!
Spectacular, cool summer weather continues and I am happy as a pig in a pool! Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day with a couple of passing rain showers...short, rainbow-producing showers... Don't you just love rain when it is sunny? That kind...
- Land Spreading Out So Far And Wide....
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside! Hubbs and I often sing the old "Green Acres" song...only I'm singing the Eddie Albert part and he's singing Eva Gabor! There's something about the country... the smells, the sights, the peace...
- Vegetable Lovers
Our autumn-like weather has continued right through the weekend.I am told, however, that we are returning to summer later this week.For now, though, I am enjoying the cool nights...great sleeping weather! Friday's hay making was a big success.With...
- The Long And The Short Of Egg Production
Currently, we have about 30 layers....producing about 15 (plus or minus) eggs a day. We have a dozen more Rhode Island Red adolescents that will begin to lay later this winter. The amazing thing to me is the variety of color and size that we get in any...
- Garden Explosion!!
It seems like just yesterday, I was planting seeds in tiny pots in the greenhouse. Now, months later, cold weather is just a memory and the dog days of August are upon us, and those tiny seedlings are mature plants bursting with produce. Thirty tomato...