by Victoria Gazeley | Nov 30, 2011 | Animals, Chickens, Livestock
Thanks to everyone who participated both entering names and voting in our chicken coop naming contest. After all was said and done, it came down to five entries we really liked. But ultimately, we couldn’t choose just one name – so we picked two… 🙂...
by Victoria Gazeley | Nov 20, 2011 | Emergency Preparedness, From City to Country, Homestead Planning, Lessons, Rural Real Estate
It’s getting cold here. The ground is rock solid frozen and we’ve gone full into ‘winter mode’. Now that we’ve got livestock (chickens), it adds a whole new dimension to preparing our rural property to keep everyone (and everything)...
by Victoria Gazeley | Nov 17, 2011 | Animals, Chickens, From City to Country, Home Business from the Homestead, Lessons, Livestock, Mice, Mindset, Pests, Rural Home Office, Rural Technology
Time for me to come clean. I love the rural life, really I do, but there are some days when the comfort of a city condo would be a welcome distraction. And honestly? A relief. Like the days when it’s sub-zero and I forgot to pick up winter work gloves to do...
by Victoria Gazeley | Nov 13, 2011 | Buildings, From City to Country, Homesteading Stories, Lessons, Maintenance
Well, we had an exciting afternoon recently! When you live in the forest, you get used to falling trees and branches flying around when the wind picks up, but we recently had a day that was a bit more dramatic than usual. A storm blew through one afternoon last week...
by Victoria Gazeley | Nov 10, 2011 | Animals, Chickens, Contests, Livestock
HUGE thanks to everyone who took the time to submit ideas for our naming our new chicken coop. We had lots of really fun entries on our contest page (click here and scroll down to the comments section) – you guys are so creative! I just spent some time going...
