June 2025 tour of backyard veggie gardens & raspberry path to kitchen garden

Chicken observations. Phoenix can’t figure out what happened to her escape path.

So many turtles on every floating log or branch

Rounding up the two hold outs. Last two chickens to go in coop. #chickens

Potager/kitchen garden tour early June

Brief look at back yard while I make sure the hawk is gone. #chickens #restoration #shadegarden

Shooing the goose family away. Though, they’re so cute.

Sitting under new oak leaves enjoying the chickens. I’m recovering from surgery. #chickens #oaks

Pink Greenstalk planters in Potager garden #greenstalk #potager #kitchengarden #waterfeature

Caught in the act! I know where she gets out. #chickens #fencing #escapeartist

A dizzying view of cleaning the coop. Thanks, Grandson!

Making seed starting mix with screened, microbe-rich compost

Cleaning out the coop for the compost pile|walk around the coop.

Monkey swing is more fun than planting potatoes #planting #grandson

Backyard garden cleanup after chickens kind of corralled. 4/9/24 #chickens #gardenprep #growfood

Procrastinating on garden planning & chickens need to be corralled. #gardendesign #chickens

Tapping two old silver maples. Learning as we go.

Finally checking and bottling vinegars made last year

Northern Arborists here to remove big dead limbs over the chicken coop

VLOG of my thoughts on predators as I watch my chickens on peninsula.

Here’s what we see with new camera inside chicken run

New camera captures the return of a wayward chicken to the run.

Late garden work. Snow came early #wintergarden #firstsnow #holly #nativeplants

Last minute harvest before the first frost #gardenharvest #frost

Enjoying nature in a fog #fog #pond

Grand babies feeding chickens in the garden

Little ones in October garden #chicken #garden #grandbabies

Garden Salad at Grandma's

Catching the chickens #chickens

What I’ve learned to preserve by watching YouTube videos #kitchen #preserving

Poor girls. 114 deg heat index. How do southern girls take the heat?

Native plants blooming in August

View from the deck in August

Rain in the Potager garden!

Garden Tour -July 30, 2023

Walking the spring wildflower path to the compost pile. The chickens made it!

Day 2: still waiting for chickens to enter compost pile

A walk through the backyard, a big branch fell down, plans for the chicken yard.

Back yard food garden. Where it all started.

Giving bone broth scraps to our chickens

Front Potager (kitchen) garden tour - Trouble with deer - July 2023