Something’s eating our chickens. Yesterday I noticed our flock of Rhode Island Reds seemed a little thin. It dawned on me that one of our two roosters was nowhere to be seen. Then, after visiting with the hens out in the orchard–just sitting on an overturned bucket and watching them scratch in the turf–I returned […]
The other day my wife and I returned home from lunch out and soon noticed something oddly missing. Through a bank of south-facing living room windows we normally have a clear view of our 30 laying hens cavorting in the yard. But as I peered out the windows, it suddenly dawned on me: The chickens […]
In three years of scouring Washington County, NY, for a farm property, we found very little that even approached the kind of home we had in mind. There’s a reason why dairy country does not necessarily lend itself to a small, integrated family farm. But that’s a story for another day. We thought our search […]
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