Raising Chickens and Urban Gardening
The first round of seed packets arrived in the mail this past week from Baker Creek. It’s a little like Christmas — anticipating the package delivery, opening it, and being so delighted by the colorful seed packets, and all the promise that each holds. Crazy, I know, but that’s how it is when your passion is digging in the dirt….
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After a very dry December and January, it looks as though winter has finally arrived in Coeur d’Alene. A lovely blanket of snow has finally covered the garden and will help to insulate the ground against the bitter-cold temps that are predicted for the next week. For me, there is nothing so satisfying as paging through seed catalogs while the…
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Happy New Year from the Coeur d’Alene Coop & Second Street Chicken Ranch! 2013 was a good year for the Second Street Chicken Ranch. We grew and sold hundreds of heirloom tomato plans at the Kootenai County Farmer’s Market (and we’ll be doing it again in 2014); we enjoyed a wonderfully long and hot gardening season, which was perfect for…
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The Summer Garden The gardens at the 2nd Street Chicken Ranch are in full bloom and happily abuzz. The perennial garden is blazing with the fiery golds, purples and whites of the echinacea, rudbeckia, yarrow, and gooseneck loosestrife. It’s been three years since I first planted the “invasive” gooseneck loosestrife, and no surprise, the “flock” is growing bigger and stronger…
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