tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13722552.post731478666978975871..comments2023-10-15T07:36:42.370-05:00Comments on Ms. Booty Homemaker Explains It All To You.: A different kind of farmer....Ms. Booty Homemakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468536186448152481noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13722552.post-16048897776356772542009-07-06T08:36:30.332-05:002009-07-06T08:36:30.332-05:00remember my friend lisa in nc?
she and her family ...remember my friend lisa in nc?<br />she and her family are doing the chicken raising thing and also have become beekeepers. she would be a great gal for you to speak with and learn from.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13722552.post-72373661057518315602009-07-04T08:29:23.498-05:002009-07-04T08:29:23.498-05:00Wow! The world is indeed small and lovely. :) My s...Wow! The world is indeed small and lovely. :) My son Parker and Cameron are best buddies and the same age. I know of Michele but have never met her - Stasia talks about her often. And while I don't know Nancy & Tony VanWinkle, we are members of Bramble Hill's new CSA, so we see Brett and/or Stephanie each week. I would love to get our boys together sometime!Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00043105983216966942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13722552.post-10053789911960696162009-07-02T14:17:36.425-05:002009-07-02T14:17:36.425-05:00Rebecca, it looks like our worlds intersect in man...Rebecca, it looks like our worlds intersect in many places.... I note that you follow the Bramble Hill Farm Blog. The young couple running the farm now took it over for my dear friends Nancy & Tony VanWinkle. You know them? They're in Knoxville currently, he's teaching at UT, she's doing recreation and farming at a Montessori school.... Gosh, I miss them. We should get our boys together sometime, lady.Ms. Booty Homemakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468536186448152481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13722552.post-69345513769629804592009-07-02T14:11:23.358-05:002009-07-02T14:11:23.358-05:00El, thanks for all good words. Happy Birthday, too...El, thanks for all good words. Happy Birthday, too!! It's my sister's 40th tomorrow. As for the coop, I'm hoping hoping hoping for next year. Yes, three is all I want. If I can successfully demonstrate that I've become better organized and a better housekeeper, E may relent. I even had chickens lined up from friends and a girlfriend ready to come help me build and tend kids while we readied the coop this year, but... so it goes. <br /><br />Rebecca, thank you so much. Hadn't seen the chicken cam! Did you know that Stasia and I know each other? She used to work with Michele (a wonderful chef turned local / sustainable farming non-profit maven (now in Oregon) who just did her master's -- thesis on EGGS. I worked for Michele at her cafe here in Nashville, cooking and managing.... OH, the world is small and lovely! Stasia's Cameron is just older than my Ziggy by a year or so.)Ms. Booty Homemakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468536186448152481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13722552.post-82693306668750312722009-07-02T12:07:34.918-05:002009-07-02T12:07:34.918-05:00Paige, you might be interested in my friend Stasia...Paige, you might be interested in my friend Stasia's blog at www.happyeggs.com. She lives in West Meade and has a coop - even a live chicken cam. Her husband built the coop last summer. :)Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00043105983216966942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13722552.post-63324385847689147602009-07-02T11:41:11.878-05:002009-07-02T11:41:11.878-05:00Oh Paige I do hope you get chickens, and soon. Th...Oh Paige I do hope you get chickens, and soon. They're really not much work at all; there's of course a bit of set-up time in doing their coop and ensuring they have a predator-proof run but both those things can be built in a weekend with scrap lumber even. Do you have a dump? You can scavenge the materials in their construction area. <br /><br />Their daily care is no more than feeding those cats and dog. And they reward you with eggs. Three girls would keep you well stocked.<br /><br />That said, don't you love gardening? Today is my birthday (yay me!) and I took the day off and am spending the entirety of it in my garden then the school's garden for our weekly Weed & Feed session. Right now I am cooking up our first potatoes for lunch, with the last garlic scape, with some of our girls' eggs over easy.<br /><br />Happy harvest!elhttp://fastgrowtheweeds.com/noreply@blogger.com