Introducing me!

Hello everyone! My name is Mary and I live in the beautiful evergreen state of Washington.
I have a passion for farming and my goal is to one day have a self sufficient farm out in the middle of nowhere, with a hand pump well, and all the farm animals I could ever want and a long dirt driveway leading to my log cabin in the forest... a girl can dream right? But for now I am making the most of my front yard in the city by transforming it into a mini-farm.

This picture is from a property in the mountains that my
Grandparents own.

Is it all right if I tell you a little (ok, long) story about how I became interested in farming? Well here's how it went...

About a year ago I had a sudden desire to get chickens. We had had chickens in the past but gave them away, and now I was starting to miss the cute scratching and pecking and clucking and all the other little things that chickens do. (not to mention the egg laying :)

So with a notepad and a laptop I researched chickens till the cows came home(or should I say till the chickens came home hehe), and in February 2015 I got my first batch of nine little chickens from the feed store. 6 Easter eggers, 2 gold stars and 1 speckled sussex. (chicken math had already taken control of me so our originally planned six turned into nine. If you don't know what chicken math is, it is a somewhat uncontrollable desire to keep expanding your flock of chickens. It can also be applied to ducks, rabbits, beehives, goats, etc.)

Ruthie, my speckled sussex. Behind her is one of the jersey giant girls.

With these girls all settled into their brooder, there were a few breeds that we still planned to get, so a couple days later we set out to a semi-local farm to pick up a fancy shmancy cream legbar and a polish. Unfortunately the tiny polish chick didn't make it,  but since a polish chicken had been on my wishlist we went back to the farm a couple days later to get a new little chick and this time i was sure she (or should i say he, it turned out to be a rooster!) was going to make it.

Now I had 11 tiny chickens (as I liked to call them) but the number was yet to grow because a month later we got two jersey giants, which we had to house separately because of such a big age difference between the two groups.
About a month after THAT 3 more little chicks joined the family, a buff orpington and 2 more polish.

And in conclusion to the chicken side of the story, my total number of chickens is 14. Two of the polish turned out to be roosters, and roosters aren't allowed where I live. We found them a great home though and now they are free ranging and dust bathing to their hearts content.

Besides chickens, I also have 4 guinea pigs and a beaglier (beagle-cavalier king Charles spaniel mix), and I would love to get rabbits next year, and ducks sometime in the future as well as goats and honeybees and a peacock, I have a long wish list of animals :)

Joy, my beaglier.

Interweaved into all the chicken research and whatnot I decided to try planting a garden, again.. there have been several failed attempts in the past. :P So I took advantage of my mom's two 8x3' raised garden beds and planted zucchini (which turned out beautifully, I don't think there is a person in the world who can fail at zucchini), as well as sugar snap peas, corn, cherry tomatoes, a potato tower (I'll do a post all about that later), pumpkins,(well, A pumpkin) kale, grapes,( my mom had planted a grapevine a few years ago and this was the first year it had fruit.) cucumbers, and cilantro.

This is Mr. Pumpkin, the only pumpkin from my garden this year.

Some of my favorite past times include, reading, knitting, sewing, baking, cooking, playing piano(fun fact: I also know how to play the accordion!), watching my favorite show EVER once upon a time, and listening to John Denver's greatest hits.

So now you know a bit about me and my love for farming, and I'd love to learn more about you! Do you have a farm? Want a farm? Just happened upon my blog? What's your favorite color? Favorite shape? Comment below!

My favorite color is green, my favorite shape is a pentagonal dodecahedron (look it up ;) and you probably know the answer to the farm questions if you read this entire post, also i just happened to stumble upon this blog and decided to write a post and make it my own.


Blow up the TV, move to the country, keep homesteading and stay farmy! (it's a word now)

Thank you for reading!