Garden || Update

Our garden took a pretty fierce hit a couple weeks ago. While the folks on the East coast were having a welcomed heat wave, we had super cold temps and a string of below freezing nights. We covered everything as best we could but still had some casualties. We decided to rip out everything that we couldn't save, transport the survivors to our raised beds, and work on prepping our soil for our next big growing season.

I'm happy to say we saved a bunch of lettuce, kale, lavender, and rosemary and we are working on bringing back some broccoli but they sure don't look very happy.

Urban Farming in Phoenix

Crazy girls

As you know, about a month ago we got chickens! After talking and researching, we found a fab deal on Craigslist and decided to just go for it. It was an awesome decision and I'm so glad we did it. Chickens are basically the most low maintenance pet ever. They are also super dumb and thus, super fun to watch.  Up until now, the oppressive heat and molting kept the ladies from producing eggs. We got our first eggs recently and it was sooo exciting. We have now been getting an egg every other day or so. I'm sure production will pick up in the coming months. I'm pretty much addicted and want to get more chickens. Next year I would like to build a larger coop and get a few more birds. 

Anyways, I've been seeing posters about this years Tour De Coops and I can't wait! I found these rad Phoenix urban farm blogs through the Tour De Coops page.

The Simple Farm

Sweet Life Garden 

Boho Farm and Home

and check this out- Farmyard- you can hire them to not only install a garden for you but also maintain it (even though that takes a lot of the fun out of it).

Also, for any of you seasoned farmers out there, we've had a little problem with our big white hen (Maggie.. technically her name is Maggie's Boobs hahaha. Like that episode of Community) being a bully! She won't let the other (Princess Beyonce... from the tv show Raising Hope) eat or drink and she will peck at her if she tries to get food. Any tips on how to stop her from being a bitch? 

New Adventures || I'm a mommy!

Trevor and I are the proud parents of these hot babes. We haven't decided on names yet but were thinking either:

Princess Beyonce (from the tv show Raising Hope. Have you seen it? I looove the grandma), Katy Perry, and Sean Bonnett (from my favorite band Andrew Jackson Jihad. Even though it's a boy's name).

Dasi, Danielle, and Maggie after my close friends (I thought it'd be funny to be like, "hey I'm just hanging out with the girls". I like funny).

Maybe something from the Golden Girls?? Harry Potter?

Other? Any suggestions? What do ya think?