Burning Day
After a long day of yard work at 5R Farm there is nothing quite so satisfying as piling up all the blackberry brambles, branches, and...
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May 15, 2012
Chick Moving Day
With most of the chicks now between 8 and 10 weeks old, last Saturday was the day to move them from their overcrowded kitchen brooder to...
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May 6, 2012
First 5R Farm Veggie Garden
It’s been a long time coming, and finally the veggie garden planting is complete. It started with chainsawing and stump grinding back in...
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Apr 22, 2012
Rooster Cogburn
With our oldest chicks for the farm about 7 weeks old, we are fairly certain that we have at least two roosters. The first to develop a...
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Apr 7, 2012
Spring Veggie Planting
After several months of planning, accompanied by lots of backbreaking labor (although luckily Sean has done most of it!), today was the...
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Mar 25, 2012
The Fancy Chickens
We’ve decided to move the big girls – Rhoda, Raquel, Rosie, Ruby, and Ramona out to the farm with the 25 farm chicks. This will be in 5...
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Mar 18, 2012
Chicken Coop Building
Building of the new chicken coop is underway at 5R Farm. The rainy weather has been slowing down the progress a bit, but we are on a...
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Mar 5, 2012
Berry Planting
The planting continued last weekend at 5R Farm. I planted 10 raspberry canes that I dug up and potted from my garden in Portland last...
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Feb 20, 2012
I Heart Trees
This weekend it was all about the wood at 5R Farm. We built cedar raised beds for the garden, planted trees, and gathered logs for...
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Jan 30, 2012
Chainsawing and Stump Grinding
It certainly was an exciting weekend at the farm! This is the site of our future vegetable garden, and it had 5 stumps that we needed to...
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Jan 23, 2012
Bare Root Planting Season
Well, okay maybe not quite, but with February right around the corner it is almost time for planting bare root trees and shrubs. What is...
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Jan 9, 2012
The Chick Order is in!
The chicks will be arriving the first week of March. I’ve ordered a total of 25 chicks, and this time when a few turn out to be roosters...
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Dec 26, 2011
Ramona is a Bit Cranky Lately
Well you would be too if your winter coat was a bit threadbare! For those of you not familiar with the ways of all things chicken, once a...
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Dec 16, 2011
The Future Vegetable Garden
There are two big projects on the to do list for the spring of 2012. We’ll be putting in the vegetable garden and also building a large...
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