Untraditional Fruits

02/08/2025

02/07/2025

This ginger is enthusiastic.

02/06/2025

New chicks!

02/05/2025

Another unsolicited chick pic.

02/05/2025

Unsolicited chick pic.

02/03/2025

These fluffy girls are enjoying summer squash and winter sunshine.

02/02/2025

This one had us wood-chuckling.

02/01/2025

Congratulations go to this RentACoop Heated Poultry Drinker as our official Employee of the Month for January! You were the real MVP last month, keeping our quail alive and ensuring I didn't have to get up at 5am to water the birds in the cold. You've proved, once again, that inanimate objects are better employees than me. Maybe I'll earn it next month!

01/31/2025

Apparently, it is "National Inspire Your Heart with Art Day" (who comes up with these names???) so I present the Valentine's Day card Kris drew me last year so you can have... heart art to *checks notes* inspire your heart.

01/30/2025

We've unalived more plants than we care to admit, but it's all just a learning experience.

01/29/2025

Xīnnián hǎo to everyone celebrating the lunar new year! May your year be full of luck!

01/28/2025

We have many gardening books, but one of my favorites is this vintage 700-page guide that belonged to my late Grandmother Lorraine. It has more useful information than most of my modern books, and I delight in finding her handwritten notes. It’s still a useful tome, especially for identifying various pests and problems. I’m often pleased at how well the information holds up—the hardiness zone map is one exception—but I burst out laughing this morning when it suggested I treat citrus rust on indoor plants with DDT. 😂 (If you don’t know, DDT is a pesticide widely used after WWII that was banned in the 70s for causing massive health and environmental damage; not something you wanted sprayed anywhere, but especially not in closed areas.)

01/26/2025

Behold, our one and only orange! It's super tiny, but super tasty. We'll have more next year, but this year we will savor this tiny little friend.

01/26/2025

01/25/2025

Video forthcoming, but I built a new chick brooder, and it's so convenient! It has an automatic waterer (with an extra water dish for bonus electrolyte water). It has wheels so it can be moved easily. It's insulated to save power while keeping the chicks warm. And there's a removable plug in the floor so all of the shavings can easily be swept into a trash can. 10/10, would recommend this design to a friend.

01/24/2025

These blurry babies move so quickly they are hard to photograph.

01/23/2025

If you're cold, they're cold; bring them inside. (Jkjk, this girl needed an epsom salt bath, so she got the spa treatment.)