Chicken feed
View all responsesMy family keeps chickens, when the sun comes up in a little bit I’ll have to let them out. From my perspective they meet the three criteria of a pet I enjoy.
Help with breakfastQuietStay outsideIt is also why I like my neighbors to be deer, even if they eat our plants. The best garden’s feed our neighbors, I’d prefer they let the plants grow a bit more, but you know.
Now that the chickens have grown a bit, a small thing. I don’t believe that the world moves on big steps, but small ones. Is leftover produce or near waste, goes to the coop. When we have leftover bits from chopping up veggies to the coop.
I think packaging is a major issue, more being packed into containers than can be eaten reasonably. The sellers or growers don’t care if we eat it, only that they sell it. So, they increase prices and force container sizes to justify it. Instead of a large container of spinach going bad, I toss a bit out for the chickens each day. They get variety and I don’t have half a container go bad in my fridge because we can’t consume a pound of spinach each day.
I’d push more outside but there is a lot of highly processed/over salted foods that are not good for them, not good for us either. But convincing my children of that isn’t easy. Always improving though.
Food for thought.
Refreshing an older poem I released originally on here.
Footprints
When hungry hands assemble mass produced smartphones.
What is her carbon footprint?
When calloused hands load boxes of elegantly designed hardware.
What is his carbon footprint?
When shipping container bloated with stock, lumbers across the sea.
What is their carbon footprint?
When kindly old woman, skips doomscrolling for garden blogs.
What is her carbon footprint?
When bright yellows blooms explode, shared across towers and server farms.
What is their carbon footprint?
When yellow notes sing soft memories of an old woman’s grandmama. Click to buy.
What is her carbon footprint?
When greenhouse pumps water and grow lights nurture seeds.
What is their carbon footprint?
When blooms jostle and strain for light in stocked freight on an overnight haul.
What is their carbon footprint?
When the forklift unloads pallets at an air conditioned, distribution center.
What is their carbon footprint?
When a grandmother texts a Saturday gardening invitation.
What is her carbon footprint?
When a driver reviews the daily manifest of a tightly packed van.
What is his carbon footprint?
When an old dog barks at a smiling delivery man, she waves with gratitude.
What is her carbon footprint?
When a little climbs into her seat and buckles up for a quick jaunt across town.
What is her carbon footprint?
When old and young hands gently part carefully nurtured soil.
What is their carbon footprint?
When tender green roots reach deep into fresh bed of soil.
Is this carbon neutral?
I’m on Facebook, there I’ll be able to communicate with people more directly, and also have more writing updates, beyond daily musings and light bits of poetry.
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