Hi Liana ,
Even though I am new to this platform myself, I welcome you and look forward to all the topics you mentioned.
I am a gardener and enjoy foraging in the garden this time of year for things to cook with or just eat raw.
This year we are growing a lot of corn not only for our own consumption, but for the chickens. Last year I husked the older corn and dried it and used it for treats for them throughout the fall.
Our garden is organic and everythig tastes so good.
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Thank you for the welcome! Having a garden seems like it would be pretty awesome. I remember when I was younger when I went to Europe to visit family they had a farm and I would feed the chickens the dried corn. It was pretty cool.
and I thought I made that up...drying the corn and feeding it to the chickens.
oh well, we've been retired now for almost 10 years and all we are doing is new to us in some way, especially raising a few chickens the last few years. They are so interesting and entertaining but it has been a learning experience after city living.
and this steemit experience seems like a wave of the future come to us in our old age.
I'm pretty sure they were dried because they were hard kernels and i use to rub the 2 together and they would come off. How long have you all been farming for? I've seen a few videos online of chickens and i agree they can be very funny.
Yes, once the corn is dry it is easy to rub off the kernels.
We have been living on this land, 1/2 step from heaven, for about 10 years now. I was looking at old pictures the other day and I can see we have done a lot to develop the land with trees and two gardens. Most of the usable land is planted now.
Thats great though to be able to have your own garden and all. I don't have much of a green thumb lol but I would like to be able to have some sort of garden one day!
We never really had a garden until we retired. This is like our real job now that we are free to do what we like.
Isn't retirement great! lol =D I'd like to see the garden some time though.
We joke about a Better Homes & Gardens visit to take pictures because it isn't that kind of place. It's a funky, used and usable place, producing good food and growing year by year as more fruit and nut trees are added, and the soil in the gardens is improved.
But we are getting old and it needs weeding and straightening out. The chickens have a great place to peck around but there are predators. They take their share so we keep getting new ones. Have yet to have one of them make it to 2 years old. At least we are feeding the wild life.
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