How To Build A Chicken Run

Almost a year ago, I posted about the chicken coop that I built. It’s about time I got around to writing about building the attached run. Our chickens spend most of their time in their coop and their run, so having a sturdy, predator proof run was essential to getting our backyard set up for … Continue reading How To Build A Chicken Run

Read This Before Getting Chickens : Our Experience with a Backyard Flock

Two years ago on a complete whim, I came with 6 baby chicks. To be fair, it wasn’t a complete whim. I pitched the idea to Jordan and he lovingly recommended we wait a year so that I wasn’t pregnant while trying to build a chicken coop. Obviously I did not wait and two days … Continue reading Read This Before Getting Chickens : Our Experience with a Backyard Flock

Installing a New Front Door with Knockety

Knockety Doors supplied the door for this project. As always, all opinions are my own. I’ll be completely honest - going into this project was more than a little intimidating. I have wanted to replace our front door for a while, but it’s felt so intimidating so I’ve been putting it off. Finally, I decided … Continue reading Installing a New Front Door with Knockety

Cedar Planter Boxes for My Corner Garden

Our backyard is currently still in an it has to get worse before it can get better phase, but this corner has made HUGE progress in the last few weeks. It wasn’t really that bad when we bought our house, but stylistically it just didn’t do anything for me and I’ve been slowly working on … Continue reading Cedar Planter Boxes for My Corner Garden