Raising Chickens and Urban Gardening
The Great Garlic Scape Last fall I planted about 50 bulbs of Spanish Roja garlic — a hard neck variety with a hot and spicy taste. The garlic is doing extremely well and I’m anticipating a bounty of bulbs this fall. One bonus of growing garlic is the tender, tasty garlic scape that appears on the plant in spring. It…
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I had an interesting and enlightening (albeit short) interaction with a potential customer at Farmer’s Market last Wednesday about the 2nd St. Chicken Ranch eggs. The customer wanted to know if the eggs were from “free range” chickens. A valid enough question. I said no, they lived in a coop with pen…and she walked away. I was a little stunned…
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After nearly 10 years of supporting the Kootenai County Farmer’s Market as a consumer, I am please to announce that the 2nd Street Chicken Ranch/Coeur d’Alene Coop is now a vendor! We will be participating at as many Wednesday afternoon markets as possible in downtown Coeur d’Alene — beginning on Wednesday, June 13. We’ll have our heirloom tomato plants for…
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The chive blossoms at the 2nd St. Chicken Ranch are outstanding this year. I have several clumps of chives that have been divided multiple times over the years – they just keep getting better and better. I love the subtle onion-y taste of spring chives and use the blossoms as much as possible to dress up everything from potato salad…
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