Tag Archive: chicken coop

2025 Growing Season Photo Dump.

It is November and the growing season in New England is officially over. Please enjoy this photo-dump of all things 2025 from the Food It Yourself garden. Okay, I know you are all… Continue reading

Chick Chick HOORAY!

We have chickens! I mean, we’ve had chickens at Food It Yourself HQ since 2017. However, this week we picked up the chicks we ordered from a local farmers’ co-op. Just look at… Continue reading

We’re Chillin’

The weather in New England has been New Englanding so hard lately. It was almost 60° Fahrenheit earlier this week. Yesterday, we got a festive snowfall. Tomorrow, the expected high temperature is 18°F.… Continue reading

Growing Well, So Far!

Tomorrow is the summer Solstice, and the Food It Yourself garden is off to a grand start. Although tomorrow is also the official first day of summer in the northern hemisphere, the heat… Continue reading

Awe Rats!

The Food It Yourself garden is loving the weather lately, which is a rare and precious thing in central New England. My herbs are doing very well. The cucumbers and turnips have sprouted,… Continue reading

Kitchen Heneral Hospital, The Continuing Story

Our dear Hennifer Aniston is still in-patient at Kitchen Heneral Hospital. She has been admitted for 3 weeks now. She is getting better, but she has a ways to go. Just a little… Continue reading

Another Episode of “Kitchen Heneral Hospital”

I have said it before and I’ll say it again- keeping animals is a 24x7x365 commitment. Life here at Food It Yourself HQ has been hectic lately due to the requirements of being… Continue reading

Out Foxing the Wildlife

Still counting down to the bulk of the planting for 2021 in the Food It Yourself garden. We will start hardening off our seedlings this week. I turned over the soil in the… Continue reading