I have a day job and it has nothing to do with gardening or raising chickens — darn it! I am the director of marketing for CENTURY 21 Beutler & Associates in Coeur d’Alene. I spend most of my day working on the company’s websites, assisting agents with their real estate marketing challenges (many these days!) and keeping up with…
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The Iron Chef of Chicken Kitchen in Action. Whoa girl — don’t fall in!
I’ve got a secret to share — chickens and gardening aren’t simpatico. Oh sure, everyone loves the dream of a perfect bucolic setting…a well kept veggie patch with happy hens pecking about, eating all those nasty cabbage worms and mosquitoes. How tranquil. Well, maybe. Last summer I happily watched my young flock “free-range” about the yard chomping on the lawn…
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Mother Hen. Every flock has one (animal or human) — ours happens to be Helen, a Rhode Island Red; who also happens to be a homebody and an extraordinary housekeeper. She was named in memory of my mother – but not for any of those reasons. As a chick Helen was the bossiest – and it just seemed right that…
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