by John Johnson | Jul 16, 2021 | Ducks, Videos
Does your ducklings have leg problems? It could be a lack of niacin in their diet. A niacin deficiency is a common problem with ducklings and individuals learning how to raise ducks. This unfortunately can leave ducklings with lifelong problems and even early death...
by John Johnson | Jul 16, 2021 | Ducks, Videos
Do the Welsh Harlequins choose to eat peas or go forage on their own? These ducks love running around the food forest hunting for bugs in the mulch and as seen on this video, while they are interested in having a snack these duck girls would much rather go on the hunt...
by John Johnson | Jul 16, 2021 | Community Garden, Growing Vegetables, Videos
We use the Florida weave for our sauce tomatoes growing in the community garden plot. This is a great way to trellis indeterminate tomatoes. Together with T posts or wooden stakes, you wrap the string around all of the tomatoes. By weaving the twine around the plants...
by John Johnson | Jul 15, 2021 | Growing Vegetables, Videos
We grow our own garlic so that we have garlic scapes in the late spring to enjoy. The garlic bulbs are of course enjoyed throughout the year, but is the scapes that we enjoy the most. The garlic scape is the stalk that forms at the top of the hard neck garlic when the...
by John Johnson | Jul 15, 2021 | Backyard Poultry, chickens, Videos
It’s snack time for the chickens. We are processing a flat of hood strawberries that we picked up from a local farm. The strawberries will be eaten fresh, turned into home-baked strawberry danish’s, and the rest frozen for use later, but the tops go to the...
by John Johnson | Jul 15, 2021 | Food Forest, Growing Vegetables, Videos
We put in a short row of 10 cucumbers in our backyard against the garage. This is a small space that we have sectioned off from the rest of the area we allow our ducks to roam and forage. Given that we have used so much of our garden for fruit trees and perennials we...
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