The 2nd Street Chicken Ranch is celebrating a Sweet 16 this weekend! Our “chicks” are 16 weeks today and will be moving to the main coop with Helen and Madge. After a month of informal “meet and greets” on the lawn, everyone is ready (well, ready or not) to live together. There is no doubt in anyone’s pea-sized brain as…
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We held our “Hens & Chicks Meet & Greet” over the weekend and I think we’ve found a way to ease the drama, trauma and pain of small flock integration. And what a relief that is, given the trauma endured last August when we integrated two new hens into our flock. It was so bad, we ended up sending two from the original flock (the bad-girl bullies, Henny and…
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I love basil. Its heady, sweet smell is an instant reminder of summer, warm sunshine and tomatoes. During the winter months I purchase living basil (hydroponic) and come early March, it’s the first seeds that I start. Unfortunately, for the second year in a row, the beautiful flat of basil which I started and nurtured during the cold, wet spring has succumbed to just that…
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It’s time for the Friends of Manito Spring Plant Sale at the Manito Gardens in Spokane, WA., this Saturday, June 11 from 10 am to 4 pm. This is a fabulous sale for plants (just download the 19 page list to see everything they’re selling!). It is a fund-raiser for the gardens, so while the plants are not necessarily “bargained-priced,” you are going…
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