Posts tagged ‘backyard chickens’

• FEATURED EXHIBIT: Beans are Bullets and Of Course I Can

  

  Explore Good Potato's exhibit featuring WW I and WWII agricultural posters from the Special Collections of the National Agricultural Library

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  Huck and Banjo Boy experiment with Urban Homesteading, raising city chickens, and a plethora of DIY projects, with a side of American old-time music.

• Categories

  • DIY Butchering
  • Folk, Farms, and Oldies!
  • Growing Things
  • home rehabilitation
  • Honeybees
  • In the kitchen
  • Maypop Farm
  • Other
  • Urban Chickens

• Number of eggs gathered: 385

  

• Huck had a little lamb.

  

  In October Huck purchased, slaughtered, and butchered two lambs that had been locally grown. Read all about it.

• Sproutlings for the garden!

  

  Huck starts sprouts under grow lights in the winter time. The little greenness helps get her through the cold, dark days.

• From Coop to Table

  

  There once was hen that crowed....

• Visiting local farms

  

  Huck and Elmo the calf at Homestead Farms, Maryland.

• Blogroll

  • Arcadia Farms
  • Ate Past
  • Back to the land!
  • DC Honey Bees!
  • Feed Us Cheap
  • Funny Farm
  • Guerrilla Gardening.
  • How to Butcher a Chicken
  • Neighborhood Farm Initiative
  • Sustainable and Urban Garden
  • The Chatelaine's Keys
  • The Farm at Walker Jones Elementary School

• The Chicken Whisperer

  

  Click image to access the Chicken Whisperer's site!

• Sweet Huck Tweets

  • Season's Greetings: wp.me/pdXkZ-jr 5 months ago
  • Lavender Lime Granita http://wp.me/pdXkZ-ja 10 months ago
  • The tale of two cabinets. http://wp.me/pdXkZ-iH 10 months ago
  • The Act of Bathing - Comfort #35B: wp.me/pT499-s5 11 months ago
  • Morning with cherries on top. http://wp.me/pdXkZ-iA 11 months ago

• Recommended Reading

  ~Foxfire Magazine

  ~Mother Earth News Magazine

  ~Animal Vegetable Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver.

  ~In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan

  ~Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan

  ~Square foot gardening, Mel Bartholomew

  ~The new seed starter's handbook, Nancy Bubel

  ~Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners, Suzanne Ashworth and Kent Whealy

  ~Joy of Gardening, Dick Raymond
  ~Keep Chickens! Tending Small Flocks in Cities, Suburbs, and Other Small Spaces, Barbara Kilarski

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