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Pepper and Frankie…welcome to our homestead
2015 is the year that we transform our home and gardens to a self-sustaining homestead. Our first step is adding…

Growing Fodder for Chicken Feed – Day 8
Dear Jack the Cat, You are not allowed to touch the seeds… or the greens. … well, really or anything…

Growing Fodder for Chicken Feed – Day 7
Ok, so I am sure that you are finally bored with my posts on fodder…. I am just thrilled at…

Growing Fodder for Chicken Feed – Day 6
Houston, we are go for GREEN! We finally have sprouts that are showing COLOR! Day 6 is showing AWESOME growth!…

Growing Fodder for Chicken Feed – Day 5
Oh My! Day 5 is here… we are half way through the growing on the first tray of barley fodder….

Growing Fodder for Chicken Feed – Day 4
So the sprouts have really begun this morning and the roots are forming! We have 3 bins going now, plus…

Growing Fodder for Chicken Feed – Day 3
We woke up this morning to a bit of a change on our barley. They have begun to sprout over…

Growing Fodder for Chicken Feed – Day 2
Day 2 is kind of boring. We dumped the soaking seeds into their tray and watered twice, once in the…

Growing Fodder for Chicken Feed – Day 1
Day 1 – Yep, we are starting this journey of growing our own chicken feed for our hens (and a…

Fodder for the small-time farmer – general information
We are going to revisit our fodder growing in severeal weeks. We dumped all of the moldy trays (yes, the…