Our city farming chores began this spring with re-queening our beehive.  The colony successfully survived it's second winter, which ...

 We let our chickens roam free in our backyard almost every day.  They love to scratch all through our yard, eating bugs and grass. We not...

 We're adding to our backyard flock this year.  I went to "the farm store" intent on getting some chicks that would lay blue e...

In the beginning we bought four chicks for our backyard flock.  One turned out to be a rooster, so we ate it . But it was part of our plan t...

 We had an unwelcome visitor to the backyard a few weeks back. . . a chicken hawk! I heard a ruckus in the backyard and sent Jeremy out to...

We got a late start on our garden this year. I had the baby as Kansas reached it's annual last frost date. So we definitely didn't...

Spring is here, and Easter is near. That means it's time to take advantage of the big sales on eggs at the grocery stores. That is, if...

After a long rainy gloomy week it's finally starting to feel like spring around here again. But with the rain and consistently above-fr...

On Monday the chickens didn't seem overly stressed out by the moderate dusting of snow we had received the night before. They pretty mu...

It has begun!

Slaughtering our rooster was definitely a strange and thought-provoking experience. One thing that helped me to "frame" the situa...

***I promise this post will not be graphic, unless you consider looking at the chicken you buy at the grocery store graphic*** Saturday wa...

The thing about baby chicks is it's hard to tell if they are a girl baby chick or a boy baby chick. It takes someone trained on order t...

Since it was a beautiful Earth Day, we decided to let the chickens out to actually experience it for their first time. They found a worm and...