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The girls are in their natural habitat! Outside, free to eat bugs, scratch up dirt and they have so much more space!

This is a coop-tor, part coop, part chicken tractor, designed to give the girls plenty of space to roam when it’s warm and the coop still has two heat lamps for them at night when it cools down!

Dinner time is one of those thongs I absolutely dread, there are lots of people in this house and they all want to be fed (dogs and chickens too)!  I don’t mind cooking but the coming up with meal ideas and timing it all makes me insane, so we came up with the dinner game.

We all wrote down some of our favorite dinners and put them in a jar, Sunday night we each get to pick a stick and that’s what we have for dinner the next week! This is our second week trying it out and it’s been super fun! Tonight was Nachos, easy breezy and virtually no clean up (thanks tin foil)!

How do you feed your family?

I was going to start off by sharing a kickass diy recipe for dishwasher liquid but after trying it ( quite a few times) and failing miserably I’ll just share my favorite go to’s. Here are our criteria for buying things, 1. must be clean, meaning no toxins, chemicals, dyes etc. 2. Must be environmentally safe 3. it has to actually work, with a house full of 6, 2 legged creatures I just don’t have time!

Seventh Generation is where it’s at! We use dish soap, liquid dishwasher detergent, laundry detergent and paper towels (we even compost the paper towels)! The wipes are practically gold in our house!

I buy the large bottle of Mrs Myers cleaner and just got a spay bottle, this stuff smells amazing and it works for everything, counters, sinks, floors, you name it!

Somehow February is at a close and somehow we’ve managed to have extremely warm weather. I’m desperately hoping these aren’t signs of a scorching spring and summer to come, but we’ll just have to wait and see. Here’s what going on in our garden right now. Stella and Amelie drew on our walkway and now it’s so pretty I really don’t want to walk on it!

Jake dug out the built in, we tried planting i this thing in the past, I have no idea what was in the soil but organic compost and organic soil are going in it now, this is where we’ll plant our pollinator flower mix.

Jake dug up grass, and set the new raised bed, of course Lucy had to check the handy work!

Right outside the door 4 new strawberry plants, the russian sage is coming back from winter and that gorgeous rosemary is blooming!

All the goodies are still inside, acorn squash, spaghetti squash, peas, beans, and tomatoes!

We spent 6 hours total in a car, with two kiddos under 2, 13 chicks and we all made it out alive! So excited to see them grow! We found a hatchery in Wake Forest NC and even though the ride back with disgruntled humans wasn’t a blast I’m so glad we picked them up in person! The people at this hatchery were fantastic and obviously know what they’re doing! We ended up with 2 black australorps, 2 wellsummers, 2 Rhode Island reds, 2 aumericaunas, 2 blue Wyandottes, 2 golden laced wyandottes and a barred rock! Their personalities are absolutely hilarious!