Daily Harvest

Daily Snack

Kate's homemade bread & lemon curd made with a lemon from our tree and a lemon from my Aunt Anne's tree and eggs from the ladies!

Signs of Spring

Daily Harvest

After the rain we always find more glass. In the break in our rainy weather this morning we went out and planted peas, put up grow cloth (to keep out the neighbor's cat and our chickens) and picked up the newly exposed glass.

I was wondering how long it will take us to get all of it. We have already turned over every part of our yard building beds and paths by hand and removed all of the trash we could find. Even so, when it rains more appears!

In a year will we look back and think "Oh yeah, we totally used to have to look for pieces of glass in the garden" or will our grandchildren still go out after the rain and pick up glass?

Daily Harvest

Signs of Spring

We had a little break in the rain. The garden was warm and smelled like spring. There were bees out and about. The Anna apple is flowering- it's a really early apple that last year made fruit in June. The fava beans are growing and we're planting potatoes, peas, carrots, and more.

































Thank you for this beautiful apple tree Grandma and Grandpa!

It is covered in pink flowers!

backyard bird list

Here are the birds we've seen in the backyard. Each bird name links to info about that species- photos, sounds, etc.

black phoebe flycatches by the compost, very common in summer

ruby-crowned kinglet just seen a couple times in the avocado tree

yellow rumped warbler came through in the fall, also interested in compost bugs

robin

mockingbird one sings a very good imitation of the neighbor's car alarm- really!

chickadee last spring a pair raised babies in a bird house in the avocado tree

white-crowned sparrow big flocks come and eat spilled chicken food

house finch

house sparrow

anna's hummingbird loves the mexican sage flowers and has a certain twig on the avocado tree it likes

crow

raven

sharp-shinned hawk I saw one on the quail coop, although it may have been a cooper's hawk

bullock's oriole just once- exciting!

brewer's blackbird

mourning dove

hairy woodpecker

goldfinch

bushtit

california towhee our most common visitor