Rehoboth Homestead

One of the few negatives about raising chickens and ducks is that we are strongly discouraged from feeding wild birds. The official concern is wild birds passing disease to our birds. This is most likely to happen around feeders, where the birds’ droppings could accumulate. If you reverse the approach, the advantage of having chickens [...]

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Photo – on the left, the blue flags mark rows of onion seedlings, that are being nicely protected by the snow. The ridges/lumps on the right is row cover on hoops over arugula. Ours bees went into winter with very light stores. In fact, they went into winter with less honey than they had in [...]

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