And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Chickens, in moderation near more mature plants will eat a lot of vermin. The plants too, yes, if you don't watch out.
There was an amusing Prairie home companion episode, probably in the last century, talking about farmers personal gardens, and the embarrassment if it didn't go well and you had to borrow a tomato from a neighbor.
Very nice. Looks like a piece of someones heaven. I have so many deer and woodchucks, have to run a powerful 150 mile fence controller and four strands of wire, they still jump it, head straight for my beans. And brother, the smart does can eat a bushel of beans, including the vines, in ten fifteen minutes. Hawks grab my chickens when let out to scratch. The foxes will wait and snatch a chicken gets too close to the wires. The moose just walk straight thru, break the wires, straight line like nothing to it.
One of my relatives wrote a book about all the self sufficient farms that used to be in various parts of the family and every one of them included a number of currant bushes. Currants seem to have fallen out of favor but it seems like they used to counted on as a reliable food source.
I am so jealous!!!
ReplyDeleteA.I. for the win.
ReplyDeleteIs too pretty and the chickens in the garden are amazingly destructive.
ReplyDeleteWhere is the fence between the perfect produce and the chickens?
DeleteThat's the chicken moat...
DeleteThat's a lot of cabbages.
ReplyDeleteChickens, in moderation near more mature plants will eat a lot of vermin. The plants too, yes, if you don't watch out.
ReplyDeleteThere was an amusing Prairie home companion episode, probably in the last century, talking about farmers personal gardens, and the embarrassment if it didn't go well and you had to borrow a tomato from a neighbor.
Very nice. Looks like a piece of someones heaven. I have so many deer and woodchucks, have to run a powerful 150 mile fence controller and four strands of wire, they still jump it, head straight for my beans. And brother, the smart does can eat a bushel of beans, including the vines, in ten fifteen minutes. Hawks grab my chickens when let out to scratch. The foxes will wait and snatch a chicken gets too close to the wires. The moose just walk straight thru, break the wires, straight line like nothing to it.
ReplyDeleteSame problem here with the deer. Worse than the migrants.
DeleteLook up "chicken moat" for keeping the deer out making a dent on the insects.
DeleteNot real but certainly something to strive for minus the chickens totally trashing the place. Two or three maybe.
ReplyDeleteNo sheds or barns???
ReplyDeleteNo apples in the trees.
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those chickens are YUGE!!! A couple of those would feed you all winter.
ReplyDeleteIs there an advantage to metal roofs? Saw lots of them in rural Missouri.
ReplyDeleteRain catchment and hail resistance.
DeleteOne of my relatives wrote a book about all the self sufficient farms that used to be in various parts of the family and every one of them included a number of currant bushes. Currants seem to have fallen out of favor but it seems like they used to counted on as a reliable food source.
ReplyDeleteCurrents are good for vitamin c & you need that.
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