It’s amazing how glorious an otherwise normal weekend can seem when all the little ones are healthy! It was spring-like outdoors, everyone was happy, and our vegetable starts seemed to smile at us. Even the chickens seemed extra happy as they ”free ranged” and sun-bathed! (Don’t worry Uncle Rob, we’re going to chicken-wire the whole area, and secure it [...]
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A Happy Weekend
Posted in Around the Bungalow, Urban Farming on April 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Springtime Seeds
Posted in Around the Bungalow, Skills and crafts for kids, Urban Farming on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Spring is in full force at our home – our little urban farm is blooming, chick cheeping can be heard, and we can almost taste the spring salads that will come from our garden. Just a few days ago, we went to the nursery and bought this year’s cool-weather vegetable seeds, plus a few starts. Every year when I stand and look [...]
Home For a Chick
Posted in Outings, Skills and crafts for kids, Urban Farming on March 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Something very exciting happened at the Bungalow on Thursday afternoon…we brought home 7 baby chicks! Now, warm and snug inside our laundry room is a chick nest where cheeping can be heard throughout the day, where 7 little chicks are getting an awful lot of attention…1 Golden Laced Wyandotte (she will lay cream-colored eggs), 1 Buff Orpington (light brown [...]
One Very Dirty Weekend
Posted in Urban Farming on March 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Basically, our entire weekend was just one big pile of good, clean dirt! Somehow, the amount of dirt needed to fill our raised beds, plus the work involved in actually getting the dirt into them didn’t even occur to us - it was just an afterthought! I think we’ve moved something like 10 cubic yards of dirt in [...]
Thank You God For Dirt
Posted in Around the Bungalow, Urban Farming on March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This afternoon we were pretty exhausted for various reasons, the boys were doing great, but mom and dad were just spent emotionally and mentally – ever felt like that? We contemplated taking a nap, but decided to go dig in the dirt instead – literally. We shoveled and shoveled several wheel burrows full of dirt, compost, and [...]
Awaiting Sweet Baby Chicks
Posted in Urban Farming on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today we set up our “nest” for the arrival of our sweet baby chicks: An apple crate, newspaper, chick feeder and waterer, shavings, a thermometer, and a heat lamp all in the laundry room where they will be warm and cozy. We called the feedstore because we had been told they were expecting a [...]
Spring Planting Preparations
Posted in Urban Farming on March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve been busy on our small urban farm preparing raised beds for our gardens. On Saturday we all ventured to the lumber store where we picked out wood, then had them cut it to the dimensions we needed for all of our beds (definitely worth the extra $5.00!). Here are two little wood-workers in the [...]
Garden Plans
Posted in Urban Farming on February 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday was spent brain-storming about ideas for this year’s vegetable and fruit “crops”. We visited our favorite nursery to find out that bare-root strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, gooseberry, red-currant, and asparagus are in and ready to plant, along with seed-potatoes and onion sets! (All things that we want to plant and grow.) Still considering the raspberries and [...]
