Tag Archives: nature

Homemade Chicken Feed Research

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Laura

Chicken feed is expensive. I knew it would be, but I underestimated how much a growing chicken can eat. I did research how much they eat and make a budget based on those calculations, but when the first bag of … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Stand Up and Garden by Mary Moss-Sprague

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Laura

I checked Stand Up and Garden: The no-digging, no-tilling, no-stooping approach to growing vegetables and herbs  out of the library at my mom’s suggestion. She thought I might like the technique that this book is about because tomatoes do so well in … Continue reading →

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Pruning Fruit Trees, My First Experience All Alone!

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Laura

Growing up, it was my mom who kept our fruit trees, and  a neighbor’s fruit tree pruned. I helped out a few times, but I rarely did more than cut whatever my mother told me to. So when my mother-in-law … Continue reading →

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Chickens and Rabbits: Oh My!

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Laura

I’ve had some pretty cool experiences in the last couple of days. It all started when I went to look for animals on Craigslist.

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The Dream (and the reality)

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Laura

Hi. My name is Laura Day. My dream is to own a homestead, a large homestead with varied land. I imagine it to be about a mile square (that’s 640 acres), at least, with a small part being good pasture … Continue reading →

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