Entries Tagged as 'Chickens'

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Chickens for the Garden

With the prevalence of the Lyme tick or any tick, I often wished I had some chickens in my yard. Chickens peck about in the grass for insects. I thought how darling they would look in my yard- a return to nature and a decoration for the yard as well as their cleaning the yard [...]

Monday, October 26th, 2009

TheGardenLady’s Childhood Experience with Chickens

When I was a child, as I told early readers of this blog, my parents had a small farm. They had bought it just before the depression. My father, a romanticist, always dreamed of being a farmer. It was a small farm and the primary reason for its being was to raise produce. But we [...]