Raising Chickens and Urban Gardening
Welcome to the new home of The Coeur d’Alene Coop! If you have followed me over from the BlogSpot/Blogger blog, first, thank you! Second, you can continue to receive updates via email by adding your email address in the box on the right sidebar. If you are new to The Coop – welcome! You’ll find lots of tips and advice…
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The following bit of photojournalism captures the daily activity inside the Coeur d’Alene Coop. Madge is quite the attraction to the younger girls when she in on the nest. I wish I could have recorded the “chicken purring” that occurred during this session! Who knew chicken’s crowd-sourced this daily hen-house activity? Hmm, maybe I could use a little input… Yes,…
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It’s hard to believe that today is the last day of summer; after all, it didn’t really arrive in north Idaho until early August! In spite of the cold, wet spring which extended in to cool, wet summer, we did manage to have a couple of standouts in the garden this year. Here’s the lineup, starting with the cool weather lovers, since this was…
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Mid September finds most north Idaho gardeners busy bringing in the last of the tomatoes, cukes and summer squashes. A late summer heat wave earlier this month really helped those heat seekers move along to luscious ripeness and the bounty is rolling in at the Second Street Chicken Ranch. But I’m antsy…my summer crops are still going strong. Why, you…
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