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They have 3 acres to roam, although they usually stay right up around the coop and the house, where they have trees and a deck for shelter. Right now it's 3 acres of grass, so I need to build a shelter belt that will allow them to roam the whole area safely. This chicken food forest is the start.

My passive solar greenhouse at my old house consistently maintained a temperature between 12 and 15 degrees F above the outside after the outside temps hit freezing. Interestingly, the variance widened when the temperatures got lower. So when it was 20 degrees outside, it was 32 inside. 15...

My thought on that was old carpet or vinyl, if I can find someone remodeling.

I have some heavy plastic, but decided against using it for this greenhouse because of the way the wind is here. 40-50 mph gusts aren't unusual, and this will be in the direct path of most of the wind.

Maybe this group would have some opinions about my second greenhouse. This greenhouse is going to be more of a sprout house--no ground contact, it's built on top of an existing deck. The house is to the East and there's a big tree to the West, so during the winter it will get full sun about...

Started the cattle panel greenhouse.

Yeah. This is their food forest area, so I need to decide on the major plantings.

Ok, this doesn't exactly count as gardening in the traditional sense. This is a picture of my planned chicken forest. This is just bare bones, providing shelter and a few winter snacks. Other things will be added later. The two curved lines are rows of logs, on contour. The house is to the...

Bermuda grass comes up much more easily in deep wood chips than soil. Just sayin'.

If it turns out to be a good rootstock for your area, you've got a success.

In my (limited) experience, they don't necessarily die back again the second winter. My experience with this is only apricots, but they were just fine the second year.

Are they old enough to fruit?

And my chickens got to my last grape vine. They are locked out of the garden for the duration. I do have one more seedling in the house, and I should put more seeds in pots.

I live in Kansas and this year's seedlings are just starting to come up. Also take into consideration whether you planted them bare or in-shell. In-shell will take longer, while bare has a possibility thst something else will happen before they germinate. Watch closely at the base of your 1st...

When I sold my old house, digging up all my trees and bringing them with me was unfortunately not an option. I bought this house less than 2 years ago, three acres of grass with a house, and immediately started planting trees. Not bare-root "varietal" grafted trees, but my own seeds. Most of...

My experience has been entirely different. My parents grew most of our trees from seed. They gave away cherry, plum and peach seedlings, and many of those trees are still producing, or their descendants are. My neighbor in my old area had a seed-grown apple that didn't brown. We had an...

If you are in the garden, you are gardening.

I wandered and looked at all my trees, grinning like a loon. Five seedling apricots and 4 peaches survived the winter. 4 almond seedlings up so far this spring, and 1 more apricot. No cherries or plums have survived their first winter yet. I want all my fruit trees to be ungrafted seedlings.

House on the property and recently finished the 2nd chicken coops. First greenhoise up but I'm trying to clear out the mice. Water catchment is in place but not yet plumbed. Still working on wood chips for the first garden, 2nd garden is partially planted. I work from home, which makes things...

I am a writing obsessed gardener (reverse that in the winter) currently building a homestead on 3 acres in Kansas. I am in the process of setting up the property with a soil water bank, food forests, and gardens. Into the second generation of creating a chicken landrace, while constantly...