Month: September 2020

Month: September 2020

Automatic Chicken Coop Door

Keeping chickens safe is tricky depending on how far you want to go in creating a chicken friendly safe environment. I’ve seen some pretty impressive chicken coops with attached enclosed runs with buried metal mesh and other fancy predator controls. Those are nice, but we have other projects that require that finite resource of money

Wildfires 2020

This has been a difficult post to write, I’m devastated over what has occurred this week and it’s with a very heavy heart that I journal this. I’m keeping this short and limiting to how this has impacted us – but know that every fiber of our beings reaches out to those who have lost

Canning – Green Beans

We are a long way from self sufficiency, but we have made a dent. One of our primary goals is to produce as much of our food as we can. We don’t really have an interest in keeping cows, meat chickens, or such – but produce is another matter. We had hoped for a massive