I have read a lot of how-to's lately and was getting a bit full in the brain by all the info...

So when I stumbled upon these story books, I was thrilled:

Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintanence (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hen-Chicken-Maintenance-Martin-Gurdon/dp/customer-reviews/1843304147/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_2/202-6360089-7498217?ie=UTF8&customer-reviews.sort%5Fby=byExactRating%5F2&customer-reviews.start=1#customerReviews)

written by a Brit in the usual dry-humored, sometimes foul-mouthed style but I was laughing out loud at some of the stories. Very quick read and light hearted!

Sylvia's Farm (http://www.sylviasfarm.com/index.html)

I just started this one and it has a more poetic feel to it but I like her short stories. Her website has some nice photo galleries on it as well.


Read anything you would like to share? My library doesn't have a lot and I think I have just about exhausted the farm resources but who knows ;).

Google has been my friend and I have storey's guide to raising chickens on my nightstand. i've read and re-read that about a 1000 times. lol.

This article has me intrigued. It's about using sugar, of all things, for weed control.
Lawns: Getting rid of weeds (http://en.allexperts.com/q/Lawns-725/rid-Dallas-Grass-weed-1.htm)

I sectioned off 100 sq feet yesterday and gave it the sugar treatment.....I'll be charting results with my camera.

I'm going o try to find a copy of that brit book you mentioned. I sheepishly admit that I lurve gordon ramsay (& his foul mouth) and it would probably be *just* the right kind of reading for me right now.

Love Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver.

Also Gene Lodgson: All Flesh Is Grass and The Contrary Farmer.

Grass Fed Cattle - big book, great info. And I'm blanking on the name of the other tome I have right now...Ekarius is the author. Small Scale Livestock Farming?

Thanks!!! DH is reading
A Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered OUr Food Supply
by Michael Schacker

I have seen an article by Barbara Kingsolver in either Hobby Farms or Grit recently about cheesemaking. She is awesome. When I lived in KY, there were a lot of Kingsolvers... wonder if she is from KY. I will have to look that up!@

Thanks!!! DH is reading
A Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered OUr Food Supply
by Michael Schacker

I have seen an article by Barbara Kingsolver in either Hobby Farms or Grit recently about cheesemaking. She is awesome. When I lived in KY, there were a lot of Kingsolvers... wonder if she is from KY. I will have to look that up!@

She is! She talks about it in AVM. :D

She is! She talks about it in AVM. :D

Wow, wish I had known about her then, I would have looked her up or stalked her or something :lol:

Ahhh, but she now lives elsewhere : From her website:

Barbara is the mother of two daughters, Camille and Lily, and is married to Steven Hopp, a professor of environmental sciences. In 2004, after more than 25 years in Tucson, Arizona, Barbara left the southwest to return to her native terrain. She now lives with her family on a farm in southwestern Virginia where they raise free-range chickens, turkeys, Icelandic sheep, and an enormous vegetable garden. For more information about Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and the family's local food project, see animalvegetablemiracle.org.