My husband and I have shared a kitchen with work traders for 13 years. Inevitably, I’ve seen it all. Sometimes, after just meeting them, I can predict the future behavior of a new work trader. As life has a way of telling you, you haven’t seen it all, and you don’t know it all, who […]
On my farm, we are at the crossroads of chicks maturing into roosters or hens. When chicks hatch there is a seemingly long period of time that happens before you can visually tell which are hens and which are roosters. There is a 50-50 chance of them being male or female. Imagine that. To determine […]
Perhaps you’ve seen the video on You Tube of a woman ranting about chicken’s being the starter animal to having a farm. She says before you know it you’ll want goats so you can have feta on your eggs. She continues, then you’ll want to get a cow to have a glass of fresh milk […]
Kumu Aina is an off-grid farm and improving egg production was a welcome challenge and a pet project of mine. After capturing 20 free range hens and assorted roosters and putting them in my new coop, I expected what any farmer would expect…eggs. Well, it was December, winter after all, even though it was Hawaii […]
Kumu Aina learns about keeping chickens the Korean Natural Farming way. I was so proud of my free range hens because they were natural and free roaming. They were every where on the farm; walking, running, scratching, pecking, mating, and eating bugs. But when it came time to reap the rewards, i.e., eggs, it was […]