Fresh Dirt
Duck, Duck, Chicken…
What do poultry do when they think we’re not watching?
Turns out not much. Mostly just chicken and duck stuff.
But they are relaxing to watch, so here’s the live camera on the lower yard that 13 chickens and 15 ducks call “home.” The chickens are a color-pack of breeds ranging from two to 12 years (note: banty roosters live a long time). The ducks are all descendants of the original six we started with 20 years ago, so they’ve had a little “genetic drift” (if you know what I mean).
Every so often you’ll also see a scene straight out of a nature show. Hawks. Snakes. Dragons. The whole thing.
New(-ish) Stuff at Sage’s Acre
Lazy Garden Tip: Golden Poppies are Super Easy to Grow
Golden poppies that blew in and made themselves comfortable Its pretty hard to find a plant that's easier to grow than one that turn up at [...]
The vegetable garden is off to a great start
Basil, Peas, loose leaf lettuces, cucumbers and some ball cabbage transplanted April rolled in and we've got plants in the beds. Of the stuff we planted [...]
The Fig Says it’s Spring
That's what it looks like to me anyway
Time to Get This Garden Started
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A Rare Skink Sighting
We've no lack of reptiles here on the acre. Gopher snakes, king snakes, the occasional rattlesnake, alligator lizards and western fence lizards (aka, the "blue belly") are all [...]
The ultimate photo filter for sunsets
Sunset after a storm passes through San Diego County Mother Nature makes the best photofilters. No app required.