Medieval Cooking

This is the first week with the chickens and I must say that I am extremely enchanted with them.  They are sweet-natured birds and are wonderful pets with benefits (the benefits being that they provide breakfast).  I was put in touch with a wonderful man in Illinois that is an amateur historian of all things [...]

I’d been thinking about raising chickens, but had resigned myself to doing something about it next year to give myself time to build a coop, etc. Earlier this week, a friend was informed that she could no longer keep her chickens, so she contacted me to tell me that she was willing to hand [...]

A few weeks ago, my daughter and I started our seedlings. After a few casualties to our cats, I finally was fed up enough to build a greenhouse made entirely of materials that I found around the house. The main structure is made up of corrugated cardboard from cases of soda water and [...]