Nicole and I sorted the seed bank today. I really do have enough seeds to keep us going for a decade. I'm teaching a short lesson on container gardening in April. Maybe I can share some flower and vegetable seeds then. But I hope to start some plants today. I start my seeds in the basement heater room. After a few weeks I can move them to the green house. So today we start onions, broccoli, cabbages, kohlrabi, carrots, kale, spinach, in many different sorts. I'm sure I left some kinds of veggies out, but these are the kinds I remember off the top of my head. I wrote out labels and recorded each variety in a book. We are getting very professional don't you know! The weather is improving. We had ice rain yesterday, but it's melted today. It is actually suppose to get 12 degrees above zero by the middle of the week. I can not explain what it does for my disposition, the thought of being able to get outside. I get headaches from the cold. I am a sun lover. I don't think I wore shoes until I was 10 years old. I spent my early years in Arizona. I’m going to retire in Thailand and run a fair trade pineapple plantation. I’ll provide the very best health care, housing and education for my employees. And their children will escape poverty in one generation.
Why not start with an IBC and cut a hole for the door? You could build closed laying boxes into it, and something for the chickens to roost on. Put some straw or saw dust on the floor. You could add vents to the side for air. If it sat inside a chicken run that you can walk into, the chickens could be safe, dry and happy. I have an extra IBC. Maybe this could be my chicken house? I bet I could even plant the outside of it with mud and grass for extra insulation and good looks.
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I also want to grow healthy food options for folks on a local level.