Propigating Hops From Rhizomes

When we first started this garden blog a few years ago we got a female Chinook hop plant. It has since given us bitter and aromatic flowers every season that have been used in all the homebrews from the Spotty Dog. It is also spreading like crazy and it is time to divide it up a bit.

Baby Turkeys!

We got one Bourbon Red and a Broad Brested Bronze

Now We Are Getting Serious

This drylands farming thing is no joke! We are stepping it up with the purchase of this 1650 gallon cistern.

Supermoon & Planting

Tonight's Supermoon rising over the mountains

Sowing carrots, spinach, mizuna, kale and lettuce.

Pullets Moved Outside

In their transitional brooder:

Mini Hoop House for a Mini Farm

 Mini hoop house (16' x 3')

They Grow Up So Fast

 See the turken in the above photo?


We are already on the second fifty pound bag of feed.

Quick Saturday Post

It is almost March and we still have some firewood left.


Cutting barrel rings for a hoop house:

More From The Dumpster Diving Chronicles

 

Got a ton of melons, pineapples, apples, cukes, greens and mangoes this afternoon. In this foto Michael is preparing to wheel all that produce down to the chicken coop. The wheelbarrow was loaded and not an easy push. Thanks Mike! Always good to have visitors to the micro-farm.

Dumpster Diving For Nutritious Chicken Feed

 Pretty good score this morning at the produce place.

Week Old Chicks

Bartering With Eggs

 At the Santa Fe Farmer's Market this morning I took a few dozen eggs with and set out to barter our excess of eggs for some other things we needed.