Years ago, I owned a small Ranch house in Roeland Park, Kansas. It was the first house I’d every purchased and, while tiny, it packed a punch for insane stories. Next door, my 96-year-old neighbor Annebelle would swing on her front porch stoop. She’d wait for me to take Ogi on a walk or come bounding into the front yard …
Chicken Update
These cluckers are huge. Not even kidding – a couple of these guys look like they ate their chicken-twin. Every day, the chickens keep growing and every day I discover more people that are fascinated that we have them. Let’s be honest, you guys – chickens are not an out-of-line farm bird. There are people that raise hundreds of these …
This Week on the Farm: May 11-17, 2020
Between working from home, keeping the lawn mowed, taking care of bottle calves, raising an infant and trying to plant the garden – we’re way too busy. It was another productive week on the farm that moved way too fast. We expected a ton of rain that never happened. We’ve bridged the gap by hauling buckets of water from the pond …
This Week on the Farm: May 3-11, 2020
The warm weather has us sprinting around the farm trying to do all of the projects at the same time. We’re sneaking up on our sixth month living on the farm. While it’s nice to scratch the project itch, we really don’t have the momentum we thought we’d have on the house renovation. Food for thought – if you think you’re …
We’re Fish Feeders Now
One of the funnest memories of my grandparents’ farm was feeding fish from the damn with Grandpa Ralph. He would take a bucket of fish food to the water’s edge and let us toss handfuls into the pond until fish gathered all around. It was basically a religion. Those fish knew him and knew what was coming when he was …
Chicken Coop, Phase 2 – The Rooftop Strawberry Patch
First off – I have no perception that we are sane people. This chicken coop is completely out of hand. That being said, it just got more awesome. As we completed Phase 1 of building the coop, Aaron and I talked about putting a roof on the chicken run. We considered a basic tin roof. We talked about trying to continue …
Dinner on the Deck
When we moved into our Kansas City house, we planned everything around dinners with family. We filled the huge dining room with a massive table and surrounded it with 10 chairs. To celebrate our marriage, we picked table settings for 12. We combined all of our cooking and serving ware into the cabinets and loaded the hall closet with board …
Our Great Big Dandelion Jelly Experiment
With the garden in the ground, we’re itching for something to harvest. Naturally, there’s very little ready for picking aside from a cluster of blue Irises and thousands of dandelions. Having seen Facebook friends post about dandelion jelly over the past few years, an idea came to mind. I asked around and ended up with this recipe for our very …
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