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Chicken Coop Tour with Edible landscaping + Chicken Art Giveaway

May 16, 2014

We had the pleasure of keeping chickens for the past five years. Over those years, I’ve learned a good deal about their overall care, needs, and simple ways to make it easier to care for them. Over the past couple of weeks, I have been busy landscaping around the new coop and run and adding…

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Gardening with Backyard Chickens

May 14, 2014

Plant containers full of edibles. This container is filled with lettuce, pansies and sugar snap peas. One of my favorite things in the world is watching my chickens explore their surroundings when they are out during supervised free-ranging. Chickens left unsupervised can devastate gardens and landscaping in mere minutes, especially gardens with new tender plantings.…

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Findings Gardening Plants Projects Tours

Early Spring Gardening

April 16, 2014

Even though we had a bit of snow last night, I have been very busy puttering around the yard with spring clean up and getting ready for the photo shoot with the book. My favorite spring flowers are pansies. They are so lovely, especially the ruffled variety in this pansy sphere on my front steps.…

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The Bog Garden

April 2, 2014

This past week the family and I took a small vacation to try and break up the cold weather and discover signs of spring. The day we left, there was almost a foot of freshly fallen snow on the ground! We had a great time in North Carolina. It was still chilly and a bit…

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Gardening Tours

A Fall Cape Cod Garden Tour

October 30, 2013

This week, I went out on assignment for HGTV Gardens. My assignment was to capture a fall Cape Cod garden in all of its fall glory. Immediately, my friend, C.L. Fornari, came to mind. I reached out to to her and she graciously invited me to come and tour her private home gardens with her.Read…

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Chickens Eggs Gardening Tours

Spring Has Sprung

May 29, 2013

We have had so much rain over the past week that I was beginning to believe that we would never see the sun again. Yet, yesterday it was beautiful, sunny and not a cloud was in the sky. Despite the rain, spring is my absolute favorite season. The spring blooms are just making the yard…

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Welcome Spring

May 15, 2013

Typing is a strange thing. Sometimes, it seems as though my fingers are faster than my brain. Do my subconscious thoughts sometimes flow from my fingers as I place the words upon the pages? I think so. Sometimes when I begin to type “chi…”, chicken will automatically appear on the page, typed by my hands.…

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Chickens Gardening Tours

A Very Unique Cape Cod Farm

March 12, 2013

Inside the hydroponic green house where vegetables and herbs thrive. A little while back, I had the pleasure of touring a wonderfully unique hydroponic farm on Cape Cod. E & T Farm is simply amazing. Eighteen years ago, they began as beekeepers and began pollinating the local cranberry bogs. From there the farm grew. As…

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Chickens Gardening Stories from Our Nest Tours

Signs of Happiness

March 6, 2013

This week, I decided to share with you a few photos that just make me smile and dream of warmer days ahead. Fifi, our Black Silkie Bantam When Dolly hatched her own brood of Silkies Morels pop up in unexpected places in the garden. My favorite, Lily of the Valley Roses bloom near my…

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Chickens Gardening Seasonal Care Tours

The Snowy Season

February 13, 2013

This week was a tough one for us New Englanders. We were hit by a very large blizzard this past Friday. I have spent much of my time since then helping friends and family to pick up the pieces. This time around, our family was much more fortunate. Many are still without power and temperatures…

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Sharing an inspired life from the New England seaside. Chickens, Bees, Gardens, Art and Yummy Goodness.

Chicken Coop Tour with Edible landscaping + Chicken Art Giveaway

Gardening with Backyard Chickens

Early Spring Gardening

The Bog Garden

A Fall Cape Cod Garden Tour

Spring Has Sprung

Welcome Spring

A Very Unique Cape Cod Farm

Signs of Happiness

The Snowy Season

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