Brunette Gardens Podcast

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://www.brunettegardens.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_7">www.brunettegardens.com</a><br/><br/><p>Hi, I’m Lisa Brunette, and this is Brunette Gardens, a podcast about gardening and life, with a little snark and a lot of healing heart.</p><p>After two years and more than $5,000 spent, I’m letting go of my chicken-keeping dreams.</p><p>This might come as a shock to those of you who’ve followed my poultry obsession from <a target="_blank" href="https://www.brunettegardens.com/p/spring-into-2023-gardening">the halcyon days of that adorable mobile coop called the 'chickshaw</a>,’ to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.brunettegardens.com/p/the-year-of-dying">the tragic total loss of that first flock</a>, and up through <a target="_blank" href="https://www.brunettegardens.com/p/the-chickening-continues">the trials and tribulations of my attempts to rotation-graze using electric fences</a>. It’s been an adventure, hasn’t it?</p>

<p>As it’s been a while, let me offer you a warm welcome back to <em>Brunette Gardens</em>! I’m Lisa Brunette, bringing you a garden of healing 🌱 from autoimmune conditions and the trauma at their root ❤️‍🩹.</p><p><p>No ads, no pop-ups, no auto-play videos. People like you fund my work.</p></p><p>Podcasts are mainly for paying members, except for this first one… and maybe some others I decide to kick out for everyone.</p><p>What you’ll hear is my narration of the latest essay, with video and a few ad-libbed lines for additional edification and hopefully entertainment. Owing to his cuddly-yet-mischievous nature, you might also get a video-bomb glimpse of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.brunettegardens.com/t/cat">Chaco the cat</a>.</p><p>This return/reboot is still evolving, and I might bring on guests for discussion, among other possibilities, so let me know what you think in the comments. </p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.brunettegardens.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">www.brunettegardens.com/subscribe</a>

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://www.brunettegardens.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_7">www.brunettegardens.com</a><br/><br/><p>Each of the chicks I’ve raised since early spring had a 10-20 percent chance of turning out to be a rooster. That’s the “gender accuracy” given by the hatchery. It’s notoriously difficult to sex baby chicks, so an 80-90 percent accuracy rate is actually pretty good.</p><p>Ours is a flock of barred Plymouth Rocks, bearing feathers “barred” in black and white, for an overall effect of thick, salt-and-pepper stripes, an Oreo pattern, if you will. One morning the bird with the brightest feathers, whom I named Double Stuff for that reason, issued forth a call that seemed a bit like… <em>a cockle-doodle-do</em>.</p><p><p>This narrated version is for paying subscribers. Upgrade now for further adventures in chicken keeping!</p></p>

<p>A fine-feathered flock of garden helpers. By scratching and pecking, chickens till the soil, and they also fertilize it with their poops.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.brunettegardens.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">www.brunettegardens.com/subscribe</a>

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://www.brunettegardens.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_7">www.brunettegardens.com</a><br/><br/><p>I wasn’t sure I’d get chickens again.</p><p>The first time we tried to raise a flock, I lost my favorite feathered friend when she was only 8 weeks old and then the rest of the flock shortly thereafter to predators.</p><p>This was all before they’d even started laying eggs.</p>