Raising Chickens and Urban Gardening
Harvesting Garlic at the Chicken Ranch This week the garden took on the faint aroma of an Italian kitchen with the sweet smell of garlic, onions and basil swirling around on the breeze. Yes, it was time to harvest the Spanish Roja Garlic and Walla Walla sweet onions. This was our first (successful) year at growing garlic. Last October we…
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When you think about it, it’s a pretty amazing that a hen in her laying prime produces an egg every 24 to 26 hours. That’s what I call working around the clock. And then there is that “incredible, edible egg.” The Egg Board got that right with their advertising campaign back in the 1970’s — one that continues to work…
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When it comes to gardening, I’m a rule breaker. Yes, I’ll admit it, I don’t map out my garden on graph paper to predetermine where each plant will go; I overlook companion plantings and I totally ignore suggested plant spacing. Call me a rebel with trowel-in-hand. Breaking the Rules I tried to follow the rules, once. When I converted to…
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The Huffington Post Features CdA Coop Garlic Scape Recipe The Coeur d’Alene Coop had the honor of being featured in the Huffington Post’s Kitchen Daily last Friday for an article about garlic scapes. The HuffPost was doing a round-up of garlic scape recipes and wanted to use my photo which was featured in my own post about garlic scapes last…
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