My Pet Chicken Blog

We as a family are generally pretty frugal. We like making the most of what we get into the house. This goes double for our foods. We like to use fresh vegetables as often as we can. In an effort to follow my Mom’s wise mantra “waste not, want not”, we give the scraps from [...]

It’s just about time for wild blackberries to ripen in my area; I can hardly wait!  The chickens and I like eating seasonally , and the girls enjoy the blackberries just as much as I do. We have all sorts of fruits at our farm–blackberries, black raspberries, peaches, apples, plums, persimmons, cherries and pears, just [...]

Some of my most cherished memories from childhood are from the years I lived on my grandparent’s 160 acre farm in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. My grandfather would plow his fields with a team of mules and I would plod along behind busting up dirt clods with my bare feet. We had chickens that [...]