Is there such a thing as a professional free-range chicken herder? I could be that. I should be busy packing or washing dishes or doing any number of chores, but I’m mesmerized by the browns, yellows, whites, and blacks fluttering among the mondo grass, pecking at every plant as a toddler tries to gum every object. They don’t yet know…
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A Caution Against Buying Bulk Soil or Compost
I’ve been doing some research lately – I’m actually always doing research, I really enjoy digging for the truth – and thought I should just start publishing it on this dusty blog, for my own collection unless someone stumbles upon it and it can help them, too. As I was saying, I’ve been doing research lately, this time into purchased…
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Why I’ll Be Writing About Chickens
With the price of things rising, I thought I’d do some research into how to feed chickens naturally, or at least, less expensively. First, an explanation: feeding chickens seems an odd thing to post on this old dusty site that I thought I’d one day use for writing. But it’s here, it’s built, and I need to write again. Another…
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