At last, an egg . . .

After waiting much of the summer, our little heirloom hens have finally begun to lay.  The nesting box which we built for them and placed in their coop has until recently had only two sad little clay eggs.  Now, suddenly, warm white real eggs have begun to appear beside them.
 I say ‘our hens’ in the [...]

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Frontier pest control

As mentioned in several previous posts, it has been a very bad year for beetles. Recently we noticed an infestation of several hundred squash bugs on one of the pumpkin plants inside the fort. We discussed several possibilities for destroying them, as they had already destroyed one of the pumpkin plants by the time they [...]

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The newest fort residents

Recently a new structure appeared in the sheep pen: almost a kind of treehouse. Greg did the preliminary work on it, and Charlie, a local farmer a and frequent volunteer at the fort, finished the structure.

It turned out to be a chicken coop, and as soon as it was finished four hens — two Lakenvelders [...]

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