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Eggs

April 11, 2017 by Sheila

Araucana Eggs

These are Meg’s eggs. When we had our little farm stand in our barn, we had 100 Araucana chickens. Too many chickens. Now I run down to Kimberton Health Foods and get these. No chicken poop, no roosters attacking, and no headless chickens (don’t ask).   Where’s my soapbox. I only buy pastured eggs now. […]

Filed Under: Cooking Basics, Eggs Tagged With: eggs, free-range, fresh, local, organic, pastured

Seed Starting

February 3, 2016 by Sheila

Seed Starting

Start your engines; it’s seed starting time. This is always the most optimistic time of year for me. No weeds, except for that darn foxtail grass I never pulled and which keeps waving in the wind taunting me all winter long, the deer are hunkered down, the groundhogs and rabbits are hibernating, and,with the expectation […]

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: annuals, edible flowers, flowers, herb seed, herbs, homemade fertilizer, homemade potting soil, organic, perennials, seed starting, soil blocks, vegetable seed, vegetables

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