We’re being smart about this, but we’re not getting rid of our chickens.

While we learned plenty of what to do differently in 2025, there are a few things we did better compared to the year before.

The things that come from a farm or homestead, at least to me, aren't products.

Just like all birds, chickens are more than capable of building nests and can do so just about anywhere.

In the long dark days of winter, we spend most of our time in our warm cozy homes and bundle up to protect ourselves from the cold when...

Yes, there are good reasons to have a rooster and sometimes you get lucky and have a great rooster. We have had many roosters over the...

Having chickens can be one of the most gratifying uses of your own backyard. We bought our first batch of chicks sixteen years ago and...

Practically overnight I went from being the Honey Lady to the EGG LADY! Now while I don’t expect this to continue forever, I am right now...

WOOSH, and summer was over. Cone flowers and sunflowers slowly faded away as the autumn colors of Chrysanthemums and Golden Rod began to...

There is a balance to be found in all of nature including our relationship with it. We’ve convinced honeybees to live in the boxes we...

June, glorious June. Summer, glorious summer. Lush green canopies to drive through along our favorite country roads. Perennial flowers in...

‘Twas a cloudy, rainy, chilly, muggy May. Although there were a few, at least partially sunny breaks that lasted long enough to get out...

And just like that, the Painter applied green to all which was brown, dormant and bare. Fields of green grass, clover and henbit in every...

I often think the new year should begin in March instead of January. Winter gradually eases into spring by April and everything done...

Seven new little peepers joined the 14 Acre Wood flock last September. After a full dozen of incubated fertilized eggs produced only two...