The Best Way to Get Bees For Free

...haphazardly, upside-down, in a large plastic pot that was half filled with chicken litter. I intended to throw the box out at some later date. Then, a few days later, as a neighbor was telling me about his favorite climbing roses, Kelly called me from the porch, saying there was a”bee situation” going on in the back yard. I ran up the stairs and behind the house to see one of the awe inspiring miracles of nature: a hive moving into their new home–...

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Designing the World’s Most Pretentious Garden Shed

...do” list is a much needed garden shed to store tools, pots, fertilizer and chicken feed. After years of dragging my heels for years, the project went from napkin sketch to construction in under a week. I set as my goal to build the world’s most pretentious garden shed and, as much as possible, to use salvaged materials. Yes, I’m crazy. I have to admit that when British hedge fund manager Crispen Odey tried to build a $250,000 neo-classical chicken...

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Anima: Animals, Faith, Compassion

...relationship to our fellow creatures is what is important. Home gardeners, chicken keepers and permaculturalists well know the difference between stewardship and dominion, the difference between working with as opposed to our culture’s mad control freakery. A personal note. I had, in the past few months, fallen off my ethical eating wagon and taken to occasionally consuming what I knew to be factory farmed chicken. In some sort of digestive karmic...

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Saturday Tweets: Thanksgiving Weekend Edition

...ens and what vegetables to grow in a "chicken garden."#broodyhens #backyardchickens… https://t.co/mnhi1cDQED — Hobby Farms (@hobbyfarms) November 24, 2018 The chicken acrobats are playing wirewalking pic.twitter.com/hjphPuIQOA — Bazaar (@QogBazar) November 24, 2018 Six Ways to Stay Warm without Central Heating https://t.co/875adA8R1P pic.twitter.com/RHyRe5sa7G — YES! Magazine (@yesmagazine) November 24, 2018 THE TERROR (2018) pic.twitter.com/kYAJl...

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Fashion on the Homestead

...le Jodorowsky is reading tarot cards at a Parisian cafe I’m cleaning out a chicken coop. But the point of what he’s saying is that something of your true self must express itself sincerely through your clothes. Know thyself, in other words, and what to wear will be obvious. Does that mean a chicken coop casual Fridays? And for part two of this post I need to cajole Kelly into blogging about her outré homesteading uniform idea. In the meantime, how...

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