April 28, 2010
Recently we wrote an e-mail to the honor’s college at our alma mater, Valparaiso University, regarding our experience this year and trying to entice them to write an article in the alumni magazine about us. What we got in response were a series of inquisitive questions from Kristin Nygaard, the so very nice and helpful administrative assistant. Her questions are valid, so we decided to answer them here.
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April 22, 2010
I’ve posted our planting schedule for your viewing pleasure. The schedule will give you an idea of what our agricultural trajectory is for the rest of the growing season. Please comment on any potential problems you see with the schedule—even if the damage is already done.
It turns out that nature and we don’t follow our schedule very well. (more…)
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Tags: gantt, garden
April 20, 2010
The Thomas Farm Project has an official Twitter feed. You can message and follow us via @chickenfeed. I anticipate that we will gather quite a following (look out, Conan O’Brien and Justin Bieber).
A little note about the account name: I was hoping to use the name thomasfarmproject, but it was too long and the Twitter didn’t allow it. Instead, I went with Caleb’s suggestion, chickenfeed. He’s quite clever, that Caleb.
Now that we have a feed, we can microblog about all of the inane things we’re doing — comment on the weather, report on the chickens, and tell you when we weed the garden. Exciting stuff!
Maybe soon you’ll be able to friend us on…
—m
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April 15, 2010
Our four chickens in their coop
We’ve been talking about this for over a year now, and this past Sunday it finally happened: we procured chickens. Four chickens, to be exact. Caleb and Kristin made the trip out to Eden Farms and brought home four little birds. Caleb was looking for some variety (and suffered from a bit of indecision), so each chicken is a different variety (Barred Rock. Rhode Island Red, Red Star, and Black Star).
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Tags: chicken, farm visit, flowers, lucy, photos
April 8, 2010
Thanks to Caleb for posting some pictures of the coop in progress – especially of note are his paparazzi style photos of me and Dudley’s hat.
Dad, look! I’m using power tools!
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