…you get chicken poop. That’s the long and short of it. What makes chicken poop more manageable? Poop boards. When I was planning our coop, the one element that I kept coming across in coops that everyone raved about was poop boards, a feature in which chicken droppings are caught in some fashion, making it […]

It’s been unusually warm this weekend, and overall we’ve had a very mild winter so far. Temperatures were in the mid-fifties yesterday and the sun was shining. Although today was supposed to follow in the same wonderfully warm fashion, the weather-woman changed the forecast at the last minute. It’s still in the mid-forties, but the […]

Hello, my long-lost friends. Just popping in to say hello and to let you know that I miss you all! I have not sailed off the face of the Earth, even though it probably seems like I have. Sometime last summer I got overwhelmed and fell off the blogging bandwagon. There was too much garden […]

Gosh, it’s a busy time of year, isn’t it? It seems like everything needs establishing in the spring – seeds need started, then transplanted, new garden needs tilled, fenced and planted, trees need planted, trees need mulched, hive needs assembled,  chickens need a new coop, new chicks need a brooder and constant care, organic veggies […]

Spring brings a lot of chores and a lot of preparation for the coming summer months on many different fronts around the homestead. Among the many projects we have been working on, one of the more immediate ones was to assemble and paint the Dreckman’s first ever bee hive. I received a call from our […]

Hello my long-lost friends! You probably thought I’ve disappeared off the face of the earth. Not yet. I’ve just been busy as a bee offline working on lots of different projects. When I started my blog, I thought I’d be able to have one neat little blog post for each little thing I was doing […]

I don’t know how your mornings are, but mine are a frantic, mad-dash out the door. I usually wake up around 6:30 a.m., go let the chickens out, feed them, fill their waterer, maybe give a pat on the head, head inside to turn on the lights at my growing station, water all the plants, […]

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With an electric blanket, shop lights and my plants all lined up in a row! … Oh, wait a minute. That’s not right… I like to think life is a continual journey of understanding. I don’t think we ever cease to learn during our lifetimes, always […]

  I’m so sorry for my absence. If you didn’t already know, life gets busy sometimes, and it’s hard to find time to write blog posts. I found this out first hand the last couple weeks! I’m back now. Even though I’ve been silent on the blog, I’ve been busy planning away (and posting a […]

Back again with a quick, easy and frugal kitchen tip! Homemade cooking spray! I discontinued using commercial cooking spray about a year ago when I learned that our dear friend Pam had a dirty little secret. She’s filled with nasty chemicals, GMO ingredients and propellent. Yes, propellent. Wikipedia defines the propellent ingredients in cooking spray […]