I grow a few maidenhair ferns.  They are easy enough to grow if you get the conditions right.  Earlier I wrote a blog post on how I grow mai...

When we had acreage or chickens and other poultry would free range through the orchards.  After moving to town our chickens used to free ran...

A few years ago, I started growing a perennial vegetable called Vietnamese fish mint ( Houttuynia cordata ).  This perennial plant is used a...

Our chickens, like all chickens, don't lay very well over winter.  The pineal gland in their brain detects the reduced hours of sunlight...

String of Pearls is a lovely succulent.  They grow long trailing stems, most varieties have almost spherical leaves, some varieties have lea...