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What frog sounds like this?
Or is it a toad? It can’t all be beautiful pictures. Though let us stop for a moment to admire the chickens in the weeds. Every now and then we have to listen! And you know I love recording sounds. I was out on my deck late last night recording these frog sounds. Or are…
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Leave it up to the Cows
The flies have arrived with the heat. Though you would not know it from this idyllic image of wheat in the sunset. Flies are hell for cows so this beastie got under an old jacket I had hung in the tree. I re-purpose sacks and old hoodies, the pigs winter blankets, (pretty much anything) and…
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Last Duck Standing
The last duck on the property is sitting on her chickens eggs with lazer focus. When I pass by her sitting on her nest in the blue plastic tote tipped sideways she ducks super low, camouflaging herself into the old straw. She is actually very hard to see too, in the barns gloom, this chameleon…
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Plant the trees and they will come
The kitchens garden is all about planting and growing. Trees, bushes, all of it. Wild fairy gardens. No Mow Lawns. Wilding fields. We are 17 years in and already this little property has become a kingdom of movement and sounds and rustlings in and around and under the trees. (When I arrived here there were…
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Can a Monarch Change the Law?
There is milk weed in the fields and milkweed down by the ditch that was a creek and milkweed in the kitchens garden even milkweed growing with the asparagus. But until 2017 many regions of Illinois had outlawed this plant. The poor monarch butterflies just had to miss out and consequently have run into deep…
The Kitchen's Garden 