Henny Penny, one of the cute red cochin banty chickens we intended to keep in our backyard in Portland, started crowing at 5:30 in the...

As a long-time gardener and Oregon resident, the battle to prevent slugs from devouring the garden has become an annual ritual. The first...

It’s been five weeks since we moved the chicks out to the farm, and I’m happy to report that all is well. The girls have settled in to...

There have been some tense days at 5R Farm recently as we waited to see how the nearby logging was going to affect our views of the...

After a long day of yard work at 5R Farm there is nothing quite so satisfying as piling up all the blackberry brambles, branches, and...

With most of the chicks now between 8 and 10 weeks old, last Saturday was the day to move them from their overcrowded kitchen brooder to...

It’s been a long time coming, and finally the veggie garden planting is complete. It started with chainsawing and stump grinding back in...

With our oldest chicks for the farm about 7 weeks old, we are fairly certain that we have at least two roosters. The first to develop a...

After several months of planning, accompanied by lots of backbreaking labor (although luckily Sean has done most of it!), today was the...

We’ve decided to move the big girls – Rhoda, Raquel, Rosie, Ruby, and Ramona out to the farm with the 25 farm chicks. This will be in 5...

Building of the new chicken coop is underway at 5R Farm. The rainy weather has been slowing down the progress a bit, but we are on a...

The planting continued last weekend at 5R Farm. I planted 10 raspberry canes that I dug up and potted from my garden in Portland last...

This weekend it was all about the wood at 5R Farm. We built cedar raised beds for the garden, planted trees, and gathered logs for...

It certainly was an exciting weekend at the farm! This is the site of our future vegetable garden, and it had 5 stumps that we needed to...

Well, okay maybe not quite, but with February right around the corner it is almost time for planting bare root trees and shrubs. What is...

The chicks will be arriving the first week of March. I’ve ordered a total of 25 chicks, and this time when a few turn out to be roosters...

Well you would be too if your winter coat was a bit threadbare! For those of you not familiar with the ways of all things chicken, once a...

There are two big projects on the to do list for the spring of 2012. We’ll be putting in the vegetable garden and also building a large...