Welcome to The Littlest Farm blog. We are Meghan and Lucas, urban farmers in the making.
Working with a roughly 45 square foot growing area ( plus some other creative solutions ) we hope to be celebrating a bountiful harvest at this time next year.
Working with a roughly 45 square foot growing area ( plus some other creative solutions ) we hope to be celebrating a bountiful harvest at this time next year.
Our initial growing area
We also have plans for a 63 square foot chicken run, a rabbit, some bees ( we hope ) and a separate garden for growing both medicinal and culinary herbs.
Proposed chicken run
The flower and herb garden
As you can see we have a lot of work ahead of us but it should be fun and eventually very delicious. Be sure to join us on Google+ for lots of pictures and bonus projects.
I'm seeing lot of potential. I would tear down the fence that's falling anyway, but save the wood to make your chicken coop. Get yourself a hammer drill and hang gutters on that wall. This will double or triple your growing area. Why use up so much of the garden area that you do have with so much walking path? Why not use it all and mulch small paths between rows? Chickens don't need 63 square feet. This is all they need: http://www.wayfair.com/New-Age-Pet-Bedford-Chicken-Barn-and-Pen-in-Natural-Cedar-ECOCH101-NEW1064.html
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot of potential and work ahead, I agree. We are working a separate water capture in the area that we will cover later.
DeleteThe reason that we are limiting what we grow is the amount of waste we ended up last year with a porch garden ( 34 sf). We know our use and limits. We are trying to be responsible with the space we have ---- until we have too much compost :)
As far as the chickens go: we are learning and many many thanks for the link.