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Candling eggs

  • February 19, 2015
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  • Rory
We are now two weeks into our little egg-hatching experiment. It’s mostly uneventful, other than turning the eggs three times a day and occasionally checking the temperature in the middle of the…
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The $3, 30-Minute Egg Incubator

  • February 8, 2015
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  • Rory
I decided this was the year I wanted to try hatching our own chickens. After all, we wake up to a crowing rooster most mornings. Might as well get a few…
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Planting a No-Till Garden, Step-by-Step

  • January 27, 2015
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  • Rory
A few years ago I watched the documentary Back to Eden, which describes how master gardener Paul Gautschi uses a revolutionary but forgotten method to suppress weeds and rebuild soil fertility. If you…
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Colors & Shapes

  • January 23, 2015
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  • Rory
Creating board games has become something of a pastime for me the last couple of years. Having grown up addicted to video games, I became a board game enthusiast later…
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Oops!

  • January 19, 2015
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  • Rory
A few days ago one of Becca’s friends was visiting and asking a lot of questions about getting a new garden going this summer. Becca told her she would undoubtedly make…
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2014 year in review

  • January 7, 2015
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  • Rory
Becca picks a forward-looking word for each year on her blog. If I had to pick a word for 2014, it would be “ambitious”.  I was driven mostly by the long-range…
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