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Gertrude and Lobelia
Our first two chickens.Yesterday, Katie and I went over to my friend Nathan’s house and with his help, humanely slaughtered our chickens and processed them.This was the first time I have ever killed a...
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Antibiotic free, Free-range chickens…
…that are injected with antibiotics and don’t get free range: Nature’s Harmony Farms has a good illustration of a case in point with Tyson chicken suing the USDA.
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Oh, Rats!
We thought they were too cute to be rats. We thought we had field mice eating from our compost pile. We were wrong.Yuck!It turns out that we are feeding a growing family of rats who have taken up...
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Backyard and Seedlings
Katie and I are getting (more) serious about our backyard garden this year. To help keep the plants watered, we installed a drip irrigation system last weekend. Today I pruned the berry bushes and...
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Silly Chicken
We always knew that Hester was the smarter of our two Buffs. She is larger and prettier and more social, while Penelope always seemed a little sillier.In keeping with that stereotype, Penelope has now...
View ArticlePope Francis’s Eco-Encyclical Shows How Catholicism Is Neither Right Nor Left
I’m glad that Pope Francis has written an encyclical (Laudato Si) on the importance for humans to care for the environment. Because, quite simply, God created the natural world and has commanded us to...
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