Free Food!

It's quite a busy week here. I have spent a fair amount of time reading and writing off-box in addition to doing battle with pricker weeds out back, and on the hill, and in the front and give me that flame thrower right now! ... Ok...yes...I'm breathing....So it has been a time filled with much work, but I have emerged from the jungle with a nugget of wisdom, and it's one you can eat. 

Now I am sure that everyone knows that if you put in a little time and effort you can do a fair bit to feed yourself with a few seeds and some good dirt. But when is the last time you really thought about getting your hands dirty with this business? I'm not gonna harp, but ... just consider the potential.

Feed the Crows

This spring I have started a new venture. In addition to sweet little song birds, hummingbirds, and occasionally my own children, I have started to feed the crows.

Now wait! Don't call the neighbor cops on me just yet. My CCRs may say I can't raise chickens, but they say nothing on feeding any fowl that just happens to wander into my backyard, no matter how verminy they might think them. Yet, I suspect though that if folks saw crows the way I do they might not be so quick to rack that shotgun. Heck, they might get