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Rhode Island snakes can’t really compete with Florida snakes. Not sure I’ve seen one around here bigger than a garter snake, although there are a few bigger ones I’m told (no venomous ones in the state).

Earlier I posted a pic of the first hay bale composter. Here’s a shot across the top of all four.

You should definitely check out the Edible Acres channel…lots of great info and he’s low cost, low tech, and low intensity. Some of the homesteading YouTubers are too intense for me, and when I see them working with brand new materials and shiny, expensive tools, it just cries “fiction” to me...

So, had an exercise in "free protein" today. I'm in Rhode Island, and it's one week before Christmas. When it warmed up to 37 degrees this morning and there was a break in the sleet, I headed out to the chicken run. I've been in the process of migrating the contents of the 14' x 7' composter I...

One of the things I like about Edibleacres is that he doesn't claim to be an expert. He preaches experimentation, continual improvement, and that failure is OK...and it looks like he lives it, too. I use a lot of his chicken-raising approaches - feeding food waste, compost in the chicken run...

I built a 4th hay bale compost unit this week. I pick up 15-20 5 gallon buckets of food scraps from a local food pantry twice a week. The chickens eat their fill and the rest composts. The chickens help turn the compost and eat lots of worms and other critters too. I still supplement with...