Sustainable Eats

We finally finished the chicken tractor that I meant to have done last fall. And when I say we I mean my wonderful husband who finally got tired of tripping over the supplies that I had strategically left in the way in the garage. That technique serves me well.

Guess What? Chicken Butt.
Last [...]

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Before introducing this local chicken feed company I need to make the caveat that the giveaway is restricted to this company’s delivery area which is basically from Olympia up to Bellingham and includes the peninsula and greater Seattle area. I’m sorry for anyone out of that range!

I’ve been using this chicken feed since the [...]

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In the days before Garden Burgers, bean burgers were increasingly popular and a nice change of pace from eating a meat burger. Since MorningStar came out with their soy-based burgers, however, bean burgers have all but disappeared.
With some inspiration from Heidi at 101 Cookbooks I was able to come up with a recipe that [...]

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Our chickens have started laying and they are going rock steady.  I had pre-ordered eggs from Dry Creek farm and my dear friend Charlotte brings them with the milk each week so suddenly we have a fridge full of eggs!  And that is never a bad thing in this house.
Because my preschooler goes on pancake [...]

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The Seattle Farm Co-operative presents…
CONSIDERING CHICKENS?
Learn now while you have the time to get your coop ready for cute chicks in the spring.
How much work is it really to have backyard fresh healthy eggs? Whether to design and build your own coop? What about the poop?
Do you learn best outside of a [...]

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I’m resisting all kinds of eggy puns here.  On Saturday our oldest  and my favorite Golden Sexlink, Pot Pie, was acting strangely and clucking loudly from inside the coop.  I had a feeling something was afoot.  About an hour later I saw her out of the coop so I checked and she had laid an [...]

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We got our chickens in May as little fuzzballsand I’ve been eagerly waiting for those lovely eggs. Every two days I lovingly scoop the poop inside the hen house, researching feeds and ratios to increase those omega-3s, save my kitchen scraps and remember to lock them up and let them out.
The chickens, they give me [...]

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It turns out that my karma has nothing to fear. The rats are indeed healthy and active in not just one but two burrows. Why eat poison when you have 30 tomato plants to choose from? And it’s true what they say, 2 out of 2 rat families prefer heirloom tomatoes.
They’ve now [...]

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We’ve had our chickens about 8 weeks now I think, give or take a few in either direction. They are charming, always amusing and great for kids. I never expected them to be so gentle or so entertaining and when they start laying the eggs will be a huge bonus for us.

We are [...]

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Last weekend I deleted the pictures I took of the finished chicken coop before posting.  I’m trying not to do that this time…

Since we’ve had the longest patch of dry weather I can recall I have left the cardboard box that used to house the chicks in the run with them.  This gives them somewhere they can quickly [...]

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