Just When I Thought . . .
Marianne’s feathers have pretty much all grown back in after her molt. She still has some fluff left, but she …
Category Archives: chickens
Winding Down in the Garden
While the temperature is still all over the place—a few days hot, a few cold, then a hot day, and …
Where has the month gone?
Silly question really. A good deal of time has been spent in the garden and on my bike. Then there …
Putting the Weed in Milkweed
About six or seven summers ago when I finally realized that a certain plant coming up in my garden was …
It’s Springing
There is still ice on the lakes and patches of snow in shady corners, but spring is here. Melody Maple …
Literary Chickens
What a delight to page through Literary Chickens by Beth Moon! There is nothing literary about the chickens in the …
Polar Vortex and Zero Waste Grocery Shopping
We made it through the Great Polar Vortex of 2019 relatively unscathed. How cold was it in Minneapolis? It was …
More Seeds, Plus The Dashwoods
I could not help myself when the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed catalog arrived. I ordered a few more seeds for …
Winter is Coming, Let’s Molt!
The Dashwoods are two and a half years old now and Marianne has the distinction of being the first of …
Time Away
I did not mean to disappear from blogworld for so long. Between the run-up to November elections—in Minnesota we were …
