A One Acre Farmhouse
During the Great Depression, many families turned to backyard food production to keep their families fed. My paternal grandparents were teenagers through the 1930’s and each labored on their family farms. Here I’ll share family stories told about Great Depression home gardening: Great Depression Home Gardening When the stock market crashed in 1929, few understood […]
During the Great Depression of the 1930’s it became commonplace – and eventually necessary for most family’s survival – to produce their own food. Both of my paternal grandparents were teenagers through the Great Depression, living in rural north-central Texas where their families maintained sprawling gardens and kept livestock on small family farms. I’ll share […]
Coturnix Quail are sweet little game birds that are enjoying a surge in popularity among urban and suburban backyard keepers. If you’d like to keep a male to ensure your covey is self-sufficient, here is everything you need to know about how easy backyard Coturnix quail breeding really is: Easy Backyard Coturnix Quail Breeding Breeding […]
Are you needing a fast, easy way to keep track of your breeding flock’s fertility? Or help calculating fertility percentage in your breeding pen or hatching eggs? I’ll show you all the math shortcuts that make record keeping quick and simple! Plus I’ll share a FREE printable hatching egg & hen fertility tracking sheet: Hatching […]
I’ve been using a very simple combination of organic inputs that has produced absolutely stunning results. What started with me growing a handful of cherry tomatoes in the back yard has now become a productive kitchen garden. Big slicing tomatoes, huge onions, blocky bell peppers, handfuls of fresh herbs and other hefty vegetables now grow […]
If you have a number of breeding projects underway and your breeding pens are feeling a bit disorganized, I can help! My free printable PDF will help streamline your record keeping. Let’s organize and manage the chicken breeding pens…before the roosters get out of hand! How to Organize and Manage Chicken Breeding Pens You can […]
Olive Eggers are quickly becoming as popular as Easter Eggers. We adore their earthy colored eggs! There is a definite trend among backyard keepers who now want to add more feather color variety. Buyers are on the hunt for splash feathered chicks who will lay a unique, dark olive egg. Here is how to breed […]
Increasing numbers of people have grown interested in buying locally produced food, which has introduced buyers to a rainbow of colored chicken eggs. And folks seem to love them! Let me share what I’ve witnessed and what shades are selling the best. Here is how you can profit selling rainbow colored eating eggs: Selling Rainbow […]
Punnett Squares are a type of visual planning tool used by geneticists and breeders all over the world. They make complex allele inheritance much easier to understand. I have found these incredibly handy to use when it comes to breeding for egg color in chickens. Here you can find the entire collection of chicken egg […]
