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First apple

  • August 31, 2014
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  • Rory
We enjoyed our first homegrown apple from our apple orchard yesterday. The Zestar variety ripens earlier than the rest, by the end of August. It tasted similar to a Honeycrisp…
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Watching chickens grow

  • August 17, 2014
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  • Rory
If it looks like our broiler chickens are doubling in size every week, that’s because they are. We received the box of chickens in the mail just one short month ago.…
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The harvest begins

  • August 11, 2014
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  • Rory
With the exception of cucumbers and sweet peas which started ripening in late June, we’ve been waiting patiently for most of our garden to get to the harvest stage. It looks like…
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Building a mobile chicken coop, step-by-step

  • August 9, 2014
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  • Rory
Chickens do two things with stunning regularity: eat and poop. The idea of a mobile chicken coop, or “chicken tractor” as it is sometimes called, is to keep the chickens…
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Baby chickens arrive

  • August 1, 2014
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  • Rory
The newest additions to the Grovestead arrived in the mail two weeks ago. We ordered thirty “broiler” chickens, as they’re called, because we are raising them for meat rather than…
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