Chicken Run and Spring Crop...

We have had a gorgeous day and have been busy outside. 

Here is the beginning of our chicken coop and run. The run still needs a top and the coop only has a floor. The coop is the house part, totally enclosed, where the chickens sleep at night and lay their eggs. The run is where they hang out during the day to get some sun and scrounge for whatever they can find in the grass/dirt....

...like giant worms such as these which we found in the dirt and moved to our garden.

Here is Henry with his recently turned compost. We were hoping the compost would be done for this Spring planting, but it is still cooking, so we had to buy some this round.

Here I am standing on the floor of the coop. It will be 8Ft by 4ft. The Matthews rules state that each chicken has to have 4sq. ft. of floor space. Our chickens will have 8 sq. ft each. Spoiled chickens!

This is me inside the run. The only piece of wood we bought for this project so far was the floor of the coop. We have enough to frame out the coop, but will have to buy more wood for the walls and roof.

Here is Henry with one of our square foot gardening boxes that we put in the front. These little ones have brussel sprouts and onions.

Here you sort of get an idea of what it looks like. We put two larger square foot gardening boxes on the porch and two smaller ones in front. The ones on the porch have sugar snap peas, two varieties of lettuce, carrots and spinach. So I guess we are growing a salad on the porch.

A top view of one of the smaller boxes. You can just barely see the onions up front.

The twine is for the sugar snap peas to grow on. We thought we were pretty clever with these.

And here we are soaking the seeds. One of the books said it helps to give them a boost in getting ready to grow. I guess we'll see!

Hope you have had a wonderful day, too! Peace! Emily and Henry