The Sustainable Living Podcast

Episode 87  - Homestead Update and Listener Tips In this homestead update Marianne and I discuss chickens, irrigation, garden pests, listener sustainable living tips and much more. Homesteading Tasks It's Spring and the gardening tasks are mounting.  Marianne is re-doing her chicken coop and shares how the whole process gave her an up-close-and-personal encounter with local wildlife!  Marianne's backyard garden in San Diego is the very definition of abundance after the recent California rains. She is realizing that a better system of irrigation could make a huge difference in future harvests so she has added that to her to-do list. Here in Big Bear temperatures are still dipping below freezing at night, so gardening outside will have to wait - though I am starting seedlings indoors.  My biggest concerns are gophers and a sick chicken. Seriously, just have a look at the picture below to get an idea of how bold and resourceful the gophers around here are.  I can't WAIT till Marianne writes that blog post about