I've never been one to really stick with something, especially blogging, but seeing as we (meaning my husband, my son and myself) have began what I hope is a long line of life changes, I thought maybe I would give it a try (again). So here goes...
A few months back Justin (my husband) and I decided that it was our life wish to live on a farm and start homesteading. We have always had a little garden, even in the front yard of our first townhouse we had a little garden patch. We now live in a 950 square foot rental rancher in the suburbs of Richmond, VA with dreams of someday living on rolling hills in a fixed-up farmhouse. For now, we are "urban homesteading" and saving money for our dream home in the country and this is our journey.
As of 3 weeks ago we became the proud owners of 6 baby chicks. We have (what we think) are 2 brown leghorns, 2 black australorps and 2 yellow mystery chicks, which the girl at the feed supply store had no clue about their breed or origin. This has been an...adventure.
In order to understand the complexities of our "urban homestead" let me give you a little background on our family. I am an artist, a mama, a medical assistant, an MS warrior and among other things a chef's wife. If you do not have a professional culinarian in your family or happen to be married to one its hard to understand exactly what that means. A chef's wife or anyone tied romantically to someone in food industry is at the mercy of the dreadful work schedule which most restaurants require. This is most excellently explained on the blog *Married to a Chef. Long story short, I am often home alone on the weekends, holidays and at night. I have been slightly spoiled (if you can call it that) by my husband's current job, up until a few months ago. We will just say there were complications and his, at one time, very predictable schedule was turned upside-down and he now works a more typical schedule for a chef.
So when the chicks came along, we knew there would be work involved but boy did we under estimate our high maintenence chicks! Between changing and cleaning the feeder/waterer, cleaning off pasty butt, changing the bedding every 2 days, rescuing a stuck chick outside of the brooder and making sure the temperature is just right, it has definitely been a steep learning curve. Juggling this with a full time job and a 2 year old son, I am one tired mama. We are now 3 weeks in and have mostly completed our chicken coop and I am ready for these beauties to move outside!
*Please check out the blog: Married to a Chef @ http://www.marriedtoachef.com
Life Changes.
A few months back Justin (my husband) and I decided that it was our life wish to live on a farm and start homesteading. We have always had a little garden, even in the front yard of our first townhouse we had a little garden patch. We now live in a 950 square foot rental rancher in the suburbs of Richmond, VA with dreams of someday living on rolling hills in a fixed-up farmhouse. For now, we are "urban homesteading" and saving money for our dream home in the country and this is our journey.
The Chickens.
As of 3 weeks ago we became the proud owners of 6 baby chicks. We have (what we think) are 2 brown leghorns, 2 black australorps and 2 yellow mystery chicks, which the girl at the feed supply store had no clue about their breed or origin. This has been an...adventure.
In order to understand the complexities of our "urban homestead" let me give you a little background on our family. I am an artist, a mama, a medical assistant, an MS warrior and among other things a chef's wife. If you do not have a professional culinarian in your family or happen to be married to one its hard to understand exactly what that means. A chef's wife or anyone tied romantically to someone in food industry is at the mercy of the dreadful work schedule which most restaurants require. This is most excellently explained on the blog *Married to a Chef. Long story short, I am often home alone on the weekends, holidays and at night. I have been slightly spoiled (if you can call it that) by my husband's current job, up until a few months ago. We will just say there were complications and his, at one time, very predictable schedule was turned upside-down and he now works a more typical schedule for a chef.
So when the chicks came along, we knew there would be work involved but boy did we under estimate our high maintenence chicks! Between changing and cleaning the feeder/waterer, cleaning off pasty butt, changing the bedding every 2 days, rescuing a stuck chick outside of the brooder and making sure the temperature is just right, it has definitely been a steep learning curve. Juggling this with a full time job and a 2 year old son, I am one tired mama. We are now 3 weeks in and have mostly completed our chicken coop and I am ready for these beauties to move outside!
*Please check out the blog: Married to a Chef @ http://www.marriedtoachef.com
This is gonna be great!
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ReplyDeleteThanks Wes!
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