Just Add Chickens…and Flowers!

Ready for the chickens. Ready to reap the harvest…

Just Add Paint and Chickens

As our baby chicks grow they are chomping at the bit for more luxurious climes, something in the order of a Waldorf Eggstoria. My daughter chose olive green and a milk chocolate brown for trim. The primer is on. Tomorrow the family will paint and set things up for a burst of eggs in the [...]

Blueberry Hill Farm PDC Course Continues

Nests and eggs, compost tea, blueberries, paw paw seeds, bees, design, a full course. Blueberry Hill is magnificent and teeming with life. Worth every minute here, and more…

Iowa Hen Lays ‘Egg-Normous’ Prize

Which came first, the big egg or the big chicken? Why is it that I always find myself pecking around for stories like this? For those of us that are clucking about in anticipation of legalized backyard chickens in Carbondale, Illinois this story is pertinent. Egg-citing, egg-static, just plain egg. Egg. Egg. Sounds funny when [...]

Commission: Let Them Have Chickens

A step in the right direction: “CARBONDALE – The Carbondale Sustainability Commission on Thursday unanimously decided to recommend approval of a change in the city code that would allow for certain residents to keep chickens. The commission made the vote after brief discussion. Some minor changes were made from when the commission first introduced the [...]