Urban Sustainable Living - Mar 10 (chooks)

Don't forget the chickens! Nine new baby Cochin bantam chicks. Rex the rooster, hens Peg, Nelly, Tater-tot, & Henny Penny. All the hens are laying now. I left the golf ball in for scale. The eggs are small but a welcome gift. We let them roam the back yard much of the winter, but with the sprouts planted soon we'll have to confine them to their mobile chicken hutch.

Urban Sustainable Living - Mar 10

Well, the calendar may say it's not quite spring yet, but around here things are starting to look springy. The plum tree is totally bloomed and lots of little buds on Jennifer's lemon tree. Beth and the girls have been helping get things prepped for our biggest planting yet. We've got three new raised beds and a new three stall composting area. We tried something new this year with 2 liter soda bottle greenhouses. Last spring we tried seeding indoors, but we only heat the rooms we live in so the seeds usually weren't much warmer indoors than out. So with these mini-greenhouses we seem to have gotten a jump on the spring planting and have quite a few healthy looking sprouts soon ready for transplant.