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The book arrived in the mail yesterday - an unexpected thank you after a visit from a friend in Alaska - An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace. by Tamar Adlar.   After these past months of putting up fences and housing - and putting down food and water...

Easter blessings.  We brought home a mix of egg colors for our Easter basket this year - all natural blues, browns, tans, and whites - no extra colors added.   What a blessing to have chickens giving us these eggs every day! And here are the Easter Chicks.   Six fuzzy...

Early this morning we saw the first signs from the first hatching egg - a beak peck in the shell.  Now this evening four of the 24 chicks have started pecking through their shells.  These two are the furthest along.  Two days early - but we're happy  to seem them...

We have waited 19 days so far for the hatching of new Icelandic chicks. Two more days to go. Ten weeks ago we watched one of our broody hens hatch a dozen eggs right in the coldest part of winter.  Amazing mama skills! Now we're hatching two dozen eggs thanks to Chris...

Happy Hens Eggs are on the shelves! For weeks Callie has been boxing up old produce to feed our chicks.  Now it feels great to bring her 30 dozen fresh eggs for the dairy section at IGA Market in Chelan.  We've also delivered to Red Apple in Manson, as well as...

This week we added Spent Barley Grains for our chickens. On Sunday Anne and I visited with the brewmaster at Lake Chelan Brewery.  "Strange question," we said, "but what do you do with your grain after you brew your beer?"  He took us out to the alley where eleven...

Small weather miracle.  Here's my gardening buddy Alfonso visiting two days before the Open House. And then came Saturday and the feel of spring. Chickens were all on their best behavior as more than 40 people shared our Many Spokes Open House.  My favorite part was...

A March snowstorm on the land yesterday... our first strong wind overnight to test our chicken structures...baby chicks growing fast, cuter than ever...its time for the Open House tomorrow - Saturday. 770 Kinsey Road Manson, WA 1 to 4 p.m. This elf will greet you at...

A bit of the feast that our birds enjoy!   Out of date vegetables from the supermarket make a rich meal for our chickens.  Those watermelons are the top prize.  Lettuce is high on the list.  Thank you IGA Chelan and Red Apple Manson. Did you know?  Chickens don't...

Today felt almost normal - almost routine.  Feeding chickens.  Gathering eggs.  No mishaps today! Anne and I are taking turns sleeping at the cabin at the farm.  It feels better after losing chickens to hawks and owls the first nights.  Milo barks when he hears...