I don’t like wasting anything in the kitchen, especially if it’s something that I’ve grown myself. Any food scraps that are produced in my kitchen either go into the compost where they turn to soil and nourish future plants, or they go to my chickens, where they take scraps I wouldn’t eat and turn them...
The Dutch rabbit is a big favorite of small rabbit lovers. These rabbits are gentle and intelligent, making them an easily-trained housepet. Dutch rabbits love being pet and held and have a lot of fun running around their playpen in the yard or in the home. Rabbits produce little brown pellets of gold – their...
One of the interior western United States’ best-kept secrets is the Subalpine Larkspur. Delphinium barbeyi is an amazingly beautiful native wildflower that sends up beautiful, cone-like bunches of star-shaped purple flowers up to 5 feet high and is a great source of food for local pollinators, like bees and hummingbirds. If you’re looking to add...
If you drive along the mountain highways of southwestern Colorado in mid to late summer, you’re likely to see small pink or purple colored flowers lining the road and hillsides, especially in areas that have recently experienced wildfire. In all likelihood, you are looking at Fireweed. Fireweed can spread across hillsides and get a bit...
If you were to hike meadowy trails through a large swath of North America, you might spy a 2-foot-tall bush with big, explosive-looking spidery pink flowers covered in bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. If it resembles anything like the photo above, you’ve just found an example of the Rocky Mountain Beeplant, an annual bush with...
Short-Style Bluebells are aptly named – of the bluebells, it’s one of the more diminutive. But what it lacks in stature it makes up for with its stunning clusters of sky-blue, cup-shaped flowers that form in clusters at the end of its stems. It can be found growing in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, and Idaho....
If you find yourself walking through a meadow anywhere from Northwest Russia all the way down to the Andes Mountains in South America and you saw a beautiful pink brush-like flower sticking up out of the grass, there’s a good chance you’ve spied Indian Paintbrush, a perennial flower with an extensive native range. Indian Paintbrush...
One of my favorite flowers to grow is, in fact, the state flower of the great state of Colorado: the Colorado Blue Columbine. This plant produces stunning, blue, star-like flower petals with a series of 5 smaller, white flower petals cupped inside of it. It is a wonderful plant native to Colorado and is absolutely...
Flemish giant rabbits are a big favorite of big rabbit lovers. They’re occasionally called the gentle giants of the rabbit world. These rabbits are docile and tame. Flemish giant rabbits love being pet, and held (if you can), and have a lot of fun running around their playpen in the yard or in the home....
Backyard chicken keeping is an increasingly popular hobby that is experiencing a resurgence. More and more cities are rolling back ordinances that prevent keeping chickens on your property, leading to an uptick in interest. There are hundreds of different types of chickens to choose from – hybrids, heritage breeds, crosses. One of those breeds is...
Backyard chicken keeping is an increasingly popular hobby that is experiencing a resurgence. More and more cities are rolling back ordinances that prevent keeping chickens on your property, leading to an uptick in interest. There are hundreds of different types of chickens to choose from – hybrids, heritage breeds, crosses. One of those breeds is...
Californian rabbits are a new addition to my little farmstead, but already they’re one of my all-time favorite breeds. The Californian rabbit is extremely docile and friendly, though they can be a little bit shy right at first. The first Californian I ever took in was found running loose. She was very shy around me...
