My 10 Acres - Our little piece of this earth, trying to create an Urban HomesteadMy 10 Acres | Our little piece of this earth, t
Description: Our little piece of this earth, trying to create an Urban Homestead
I’ve been living in my forever home for 6 years now. I recently went over to my mother’s house and got some divisions from hosta’s that have been in my family for over 100 years. The details are a bit fuzzy but sometime over 100 years ago when my Great-Great-Grandparents moved to Michigan they brought with them some hostas from their parent’s homestead. My mother has moved them to 3 different houses and now I have them growing at my house. I can’t describe the feeling of planting such a legacy.
I have a garden area that didn’t get used this year and it had gotten overgrown. So I put the portable fencing around it and started letting the chickens in during the day. I noticed the comfrey plants, the chickens are stripping all of the leaves off and leaving the stalks.
Comfrey is reported to be a high protein forage so this is cutting down on the feed bill. Obviously, I cannot let the chickens in here all the time as they would eventually kill the comfrey, but this is an easy way to clear out much of the overgrown grass, sunchokes and weeds.
My 10 Acres - Our little piece of this earth, trying to create an Urban HomesteadMy 10 Acres | Our little piece of this earth, t