Friends at Larrapin Leigh on 15 Feb 2010
Fayetteville has been aflutter with gardening and chicken energy this weekend. I used up my usual entire month’s worth of off-the-farm socializing attending local events on chix and planting! First there was a screening of the film about Mad City Chickens, a funny show documenting the adventures of wanna-be urban chicken wranglers in Madison, WI. [...]
Friends at Larrapin Leigh on 22 Nov 2009
The situation: We have an over-abundance of oak leaves every Fall. We have a shortage of good topsoil on this rocky Ozark hilltop year-round. How to use one problem to solve the other? Why, chickens of course.
You may have heard me mention my great admiration for Permaculture, the system of designing landscapes, farms, homesteads, gardens—nearly [...]
Friends at Larrapin Leigh on 29 Jun 2009
What a relief! Last night I was out watering the garden (because I still haven’t put together the irrigation system I’ve had in the box since March) and the cool air just started flowing in – what a delight! It reminded me of living in the Black Mountains of NC, when in the summer evenings [...]
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