Lettuce!!

Our garden is wonderful! We actually have had enough lettuce to have 2 large salads now, and it tastes great! I am so surprised that we actually grew vegetables from seed! In the next few weeks we plan on building our raised garden bed and planting seeds for our winter garden.

We painted the chicken coop boards white. Gavin even helped us out and had a great time! Sean and my Dad got the frame put up! Woohoo!! Things are coming along great! Good thing too, we now have 6 chickens coming!! Sean will be working on the coop part of it this weekend (as long as it doesn't rain. We got some old shutters for free and plan to use them to make the coop.

Until Next Time:-)
Stay Green!

OUR COOP HAS WALLS!

Sean is really getting some good progress done on our chicken coop! It is looking great! These are the two side walls. They will be covered with chicken wire and attached to the coop/shed.

Stay Green! :-)

Our Garden is growing!

Our bucket garden is looking great! It has been so fun to watch our seeds grow.  Tonight we used our basil and parsley in our pasta and it was great! We are going to eventually make a much larger raised garden bed in front of the chicken coop.  All in good time:-).

Our chickens have just been born!  We won't get them home until the first week of September.  Not quite sure which ones are ours...but I know that our 4 girls are in there somewhere!!

Sean officially started building our coop run today!  Gavin and Allegra thought it was fun to help...well at least to use the boards as a balance beam ;-). We are going to use our existing shed for the coop.  We'll just make a few changes to it, and the run will be a fully enclosed 5x10.

And as far as our newly green plans...I have successfully not brought in even 1 plastic bag into our home this month!  We have also been working on our minimalist plan for our home.  We have shed tons of stuff we didn't need!  It feels great!!  We still have a long way to go...but one step at a time!

Stay Green! :-)