Hello, friends! Backyard chicken keeping seems to be exploding in popularity lately and I love it. It’s so wonderful to see people connecting to the origins of their food. There are many ways to get connected to our food–from keeping a garden, to sustainable hunting and fishing, to buying from local, ethical farmers, to keeping chickens for eggs. Our family is celebrating our first year anniversary of chicken keeping this…
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Chicken Keeping for Beginners
Read moreKeeping backyard chickens is a wonderful experience. Chickens are sweet and low maintenance, with a few caveats which I’ll share below. I absolutely adore our chickens. They are my sweet girls. They are beautiful, and of the four that we have had since May, three…
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Chicken Keeping!
Read moreAfter five-years of patiently waiting, we’re finally getting chickens this spring! I am so excited. The construction on our house, my pregnancy, and our town’s previous ordinance prohibiting chickens on less than an acre had kept us from getting them sooner — but this spring,…