Now that we were all settled in with having chickens it was time to move on to preparing for the rabbits. Our main reasoning for rabbits (for now), is a novelty for the…

I wanted to give my children (even tho they have mostly grown) an experience that they didn’t receive in the first half of their lives living in a city. I also wanted a…

Living in our backyard homestead is a rooster named “Mr. Darcy”. The name was selected by my girls who love Jane Austen. In fact, many of the animals you will find here are…

As I was going through photo albums recently given to me after the death of my grandfather, I came across this picture of him in the garden surrounded by his red poppies. I…