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Vegan roasts

Don't feel like cooking? A bit overwhelmed by your first plant-based holiday feast? No worries! Here are a few of the many plant-based...

Mushroom Wellington

Let this mouthwatering mushroom Wellington be the star attraction on our holiday table. A celebration of earth's wonders without harm....

Green bean casserole

This plant-based version of classic green bean casserole is the perfect holiday side dish. Ingredients (serves 6-8): * 2 lb green beans...

Cauliflower & wild rice stuffing

This is an excellent recipe by Brian Patton published in a VegNews Thanksgiving Cookbook . I added a few notes in italic . Ingredients...

parthenogenesis

Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction where an egg develops into an individual without being fertilized by a sperm. This...

The birds and the bees

Let’s talk about how baby chicks are made. Chickens reproduce sexually, meaning that they need a male and a female who combine their...

Roasted artichokes

I always steamed artichokes until I had a roasted one. It's so much tastier and so simple to make that I never looked back. Ingredients...

forgotten friends

OMG! This happened today! Skye is taking treats from Lidia! Two years after after the scary beep incident.

4 years

Four year ago, Skye was rescued from a dog meat farm and arrived to our home after a long journey. Today, we made pupcakes and celebrated...

strangers

In the last few days, we had to have two visits of strangers in our backyard. It's always a bit stressful as it's one of Skye's safe...

both asleep and awake

Chickens possess an intriguing ability that we humans don’t (one more!). They have a sleep phase called unihemispheric slow-wave sleep,...

The fabulous vision of chickens

We’ve recently welcomed 3 hens who each have an eye injury. Athos’ right eye was cloudy, Porthos’ left cornea and eyelid were damaged,...

Dairy & egg-free workshop

We had an online cooking demo where we showed how to veganize many recipes, and demonstrated how to make some of your own staples. Here...

coop renovated!

Et voilà! The chickens have a new home. The whole project ended up much bigger than anticipated. It started by "let's replace the damaged...

ridge cap (coop renovation #11)

Installing a ridge cap on the run. This was the final big piece of our coop renovation project. Next will be the winterization of the run...

interior (coop renovation #10)

Building the nest box and installing the roosts. We decided to try a communal nest box as they always ended up piling up in one nest box...

porch (coop renovation #9)

Connecting the barn and the run. The connection ended up looking like a nice little chicken-size front porch :)

new run is up (coop renovation #8)

Removing some extra soil in order to gain a few inches in height inside the run. It will make it easier for people to move around in it...

chicken door (coop renovation #7)

Installing an automatic chicken door. And testing it :)

foundation (coop renovation #6)

Leveling the area with a rotary laser level using batter boards and mason string line (thanks YouTube!). Digging. Filling the trench with...