even samples couldn’t sell all our cucumbers today.
Today at the Windsor Market, we had the fine fortune of experiencing an accidental double-booking of musicians. So the market was forced to put one group where they always do, at the far opposite end of the market — and one group in an entirely new location, [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Rhode Island Red’
September 28, 2008
if I had a million dollars
September 27, 2008
chicken update (again!)
the pudgy rooster, who — when he isn’t eating — is sleeping in his food.
I promise this will be my last consecutive post about chickens. But the reason I haven’t posted lately is because, well, my life has been taken over by chickens… so I need to throw at least one more post on the [...]
September 22, 2008
the challenge of chickens
Emmett’s hands, and the new babies.
It has been a challenging week with the chickens. Quick update on the survivors: Hope’s doing really well. She’s now sufficiently recovered so as to utterly hate spending time in her “infirmary,” a little cardboard box with food, a hot pad, and medicated water (i.e., water with [...]
September 18, 2008
a new start, a miracle, and a funeral
Above: red roses for the Reds, a white for the Leghorn, and an orange for my Buffy.
After listening to some advice that we get back in the chicken-keeping saddle, yesterday I made a call to Belt Hatchery to order more chicks. They happened to answer the phone when I called (which doesn’t usually [...]
September 8, 2008
a day to preserve
Emmett and I reserved today as Pickling/Canning/General Preservation day — little did we know that we’d find ourselves pickling late into the night! It’s 11 p.m., and the last jars of applesauce are finally filled and sealed — but still boiling away on the stove.
Today, we harvested apples (=applesauce) and blackberries (=jam). We pickled market-leftover [...]
July 23, 2008
life (& death?) on the farm
Farming is about to get a whole lot scarier.
Today, I ordered 27 day-old chicks from Belt Hatchery that will arrive on August 21. The group will include 11 Rhode Island Red pullets (females), 1 RIR cockerel (male), 10 Ameraucana pullets, and 4 Pearl White Leghorn pullets. (I wanted to order from McMurray — [...]
