Gettin’ the Scoop on the Dirt

Homestead Barn Hop #56


Last week I showed you the dirt I scooped out of the chicken pen… I think Easter weekend—it’s been a while back now.
This dirt had built up over the winter, inside the coop. During the winter we threw down hay and shavings when floor of the coop was muddy or wet. To give the chickens something to eat, before we had started letting them out of the coop during the day, we would toss in grass clippings (fresh) for them to munch on too!  After all of that broke down and they made their deposit…we got a large amount of very rich dirt for planting.
We still have leftover wood that was given to us last year, when we made our first raised beds; So we built another long skinny one.
It’s approximately 6 ft. by 2 ft. ….
I filled it with dirt. Not all of it—because it wouldn’t all fit. I have some dirt to fill pots with too! I haven’t planted anything in there yet, because we need to come up with a fencing strategy--- I don’t want the chickens eating whatever I plant!
Just one of the benefits of chickens and chicken dirt!

You may be wondering why the bed-liner isn’t in the back of the truck…it doesn’t fit the Nissan; it’s out of the back of our old truck we no longer have. But, we hitch it up with a rope and sometimes pull it behind the mower—this load was too heavy for the mower, so we pulled it with the truck. The kids call it ‘THE SLED’

It’s RED-NECK FABULOUS!  I know.

The Grace of the LORD Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Phil 4:23