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I I love Nasturtium. I grow some every year. That’s one of the plants I grow inside in the winter. It’s super easy. If you use energy saving bulbs in the house you can grow just about anything. No need for fancy grow lights. I winter over a fig tree under 4 watt LED bulbs. It even produces...

We don’t have any outbuildings. I’m in the process of building a 16X20 Wood’s style coop. When we bought the property we only had the house and detached garage. The house is a Cape Cod style built in 1939. The only addition was an 8X20 mud room. Other than that the house is all original. Our...

Thank you. What do you have in your seed library?

Thank you for the welcome. Love the avatar pic.

The breeds I’m most interested in raising are Jersey Giants, Naked Necks, White Rocks, and Black Australorps. I want large birds for meat but I would like to be able to sell eggs to defer costs. This is why I’m interested in the larger DP breeds. With plants, my main focus is edibles but I grow...

Thank you. We would love to have goats but just don’t have the space right now. If we can buy some land from the neighbor, the next step would be goats. I would also like to have chickens that would be closer to a pet status as I would like to eventually work with heritage breeds to preserve...

Thank you. Any animal can be a pet if you want it to be and I have no issues with that. I don’t judge people for how they choose to live their life. There seems to be less judgement here from what I’ve read so far. This seems to be a community more interested in helping each other achieve their...

Thank you. We currently have just over 3 acres but we are hoping to buy another 5 from our neighbor. I thoroughly enjoy the work. I regularly work 16-18 hour days between my job and at home. I’m the kind of person that likes to stay busy and I love being outside. I have been growing food since I...

Hello all. I recently joined BYC and it didn’t take long to realize that I have a different way of looking at things than the majority of folks over there and it seems to me it might be a better fit over here. Basically, I thought chickens were for food and I guess that’s frowned upon in other...