

Tastes like Chicken
Well we decided to try and raise our own meat chickens this year. For our first batch of 8 chickens we decided to go with Cornish cross...


Weeping Willow Tears
Well with some research from the google I'm taking a stab at making our own root compound for our cutting starts. The way that it works...


Multiplying like Rabbits
Well we started with a few and our rabbit collection just keeps on growing. I now understand rabbit math. We are now up to 3 bucks. We...


Dont get your Strawberries in a Jam
This year is one of the first years im going to push to have my own strawberry patch. Before I had tried to grow them in a topsy turvy...


Growing Weed
What can I say we live in Oregon. Well you may be thinking of one particular weed but we have started growing what everyone else sees as...


A Quailing We Will Go
Well with becoming self sufficent we wanted to look into other sources of protein. We found Japanese Coturnix Quail and they are very...


The Free Loaders
We dont just have useful animals here at Bramble Valley we also have pets. Although these are very entitled pets that really have no...


Into the Woods
Here in the Willamette Valley we have an abundance of foraging available. We have high desert about 1.5 hours away and coast about 1...


Invasion of the Buns
This past weekend we got our first rabbit hutches and rabbits so I figure this would be a good time to introduce our foundation rabbits...


The Croppening
This year we ware going to be doing our own seed starts. Some of them will be started in the house others will be put directly into the...