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Lentil and Kale Soup

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Sausage and Bowtie Pasta Soup

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Fall Fun for Backyard Chickens

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Bake It: Tilly's Tornado Cake

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Tips for Keeping the Chicken Coop Tidy in Winter

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Make It: Farmhouse Christmas Tree Skirt

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Make A Paper Village Advent Calendar

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Fall Crafting: Make a Coastal Hydrangea Wreath

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Growing Paperwhites Indoors for the Holidays

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Chimichurri Quiche with Fresh Garden Herbs

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Room at the Top?

January 11, 2012
Tilly has been our head hen for as long as we have had chickens.  She is a wonderful leader.  She is thoughtful, compassionate for the little ones and fair.  When the girls free-range, she is careful never to wander too far from home.  In the evenings, she remains outside until everyone is in the coop. …

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Workday Chicken Pictures

January 10, 2012
We were contacted about a month ago by Workday Chicken Pictures to use one of our photos.  Workday Chicken Pictures add clever quotes to an assortment of chicken pictures.  I get such a cackle when I look at them that I could not resist saying YES when they asked to use Oyster Cracker’s and Sunshine’s picture.  Today was …

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Crop Issues in Backyard Chickens

January 9, 2012
Tilly and I The digestive tract of birds, including chickens, is entirely different from that of humans.  Just like us, they can run into problems with digestion that can lead to a very ill bird and even cause death. Crop issues in chickens are something every chicken keeper should know about. When a chicken eats, …

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Beach Walk

January 8, 2012
The entrance pathway takes you here to the fork.  If you continue up over the hill, you arrive here at the ocean. If you continue on to the right, you will follow a brackish river.  The beach is aptly named Long Beach for a reason, either way, you will traverse both sides.  Today we chose …

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Chickens Don’t Carry IPhones

January 6, 2012
“Enjoy the little things in life, because one day you will look back, and  realize they were the big things.”  ~Unknown Chickens don’t text. Chickens never write emails. Chickens rarely sweat the small stuff. Chickens don’t watch T.V. Chickens never stay inside all day. Chickens don’t gossip. Chickens don’t have debt. Chickens don’t carry credit …

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Saucy Chicken and Mushrooms

January 5, 2012
Yesterday was National Spaghetti Day!  This post may be a day late but is very easy to make and your family will think that you have become a gourmet cook!  I love to serve this over pasta or rice pilaf.   If you are not a mushroom fan, try substituting in their place 2 tbsp …

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Playmobil

January 4, 2012
My four year old daughter loves to play with Playmobil. Her two favorite sets are the Farm and the Vet clinic.  She puts great effort into setting up the stage to play.  She had been quiet for a while playing with the sets and I decided, like usual, to check in on how the animals …

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Motherhood is Universal

January 3, 2012
Last Winter Dolly is broody yet again.  Her instinctual drive to be a mother never ceases to amaze me.  Like clockwork, she completes being broody after 3 weeks.  After about a week off the nest, she begins to lay again.  Once she lays about 10 eggs, she returns to the empty nesting box and restarts …

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Caring for Your Eggs

January 2, 2012
From the brown egg on bottom clockwise: eggs from Tilly, Oyster Cracker, Dolly, Fifi and Feathers One of my favorite things is discovering freshly laid eggs in the nesting boxes.  It never seems to grow old.  Each egg is a gift from the girls.  In fact, if you pay close enough attention, you will soon …

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