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Summer’s Tomatoes, In October

October 25, 2014 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

I had nearly given up on having tomatoes at all this year — they kept getting munched — but the fall cool-down is making for tomato heaven. It’s cool enough for flowering and pollination, but not cold enough to freeze them. Long may it last!

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Ode To The Egg

September 27, 2014 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

I wandered out to the chicken coop yesterday afternoon to make a cursory inspection of the shelter and its environs, and, when I opened up the top, I wasn’t too surprised to see two eggs — one in each of the top two nest boxes. We had put the pretend eggs into the nest boxes…

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Six Weeks With Chicks

June 21, 2014 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

Our baby chicks are growing up. Once little fuzzballs, they are now looking like real hens… or roosters. Though we asked for pullets (females under a year old), it’s hard to tell boys from girls when they’re fresh out of the egg, so, more than occasionally a male slips through when people order females.

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Here, Chick Chick Chick Chick!

May 26, 2014 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

It’s been a busy few weeks on the homestead. We’ve had the usual cleaning jobs, plus planting and maintaining the veggie garden, setting upĀ and running our above-ground pool for the season, coaching soccer, preparing for summer (lots of events at school), and a new spring endeavor — chicken keeping. They call them “gateway livestock,” because…

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