for your general entertainment

or "Chickens: the Gateway Animal".

My, my.  It has been a very long time.  And I haven't written any of the posts that I planned in my head to write.  I still on planning on getting to those, but since this was quick and easy, I thought I'd share this first.

 

My sister-in-law first sent me this video last year asking me if it was true that chickens are the "Gateway Animal".  And, yes, yes it's true.  The only thing I can deny on the charges the lady in the video lists is that I do not have more photos on my phone of chickens than my children.  Nor did I ever.  I stand blameless on that count.

But, lo and behold, in a few months, I too will be the proud owner of acreage in the Mid-West.  (Carbondale, Illinois to be precise.)  I love saying that word: acreage.  (!!!)  I am busily planning and pinning-away on pinterest all of the dreams and hopes that were birthed long ago when I had chickens.  So, yes, we can blame the chickens.  It started out with urban backyard chickens but that just wasn't enough.  

I found this video of a father and his grown children in Pasadena, California who produce 6,000 pounds of vegetation on just 1/10 acre.  That is simply amazing and astounding.  And yet they manage to do it right in the middle of the city.  So, I suppose that acreage is not required to live out your agrarian dreams but I am over-the-moon excited about mine.

 

I love how the owner says at the end that his self-sufficiency is really the path to freedom and then you see the name of his urban homestead is exactly that: "the Path to Freedom."

So far, our path to freedom includes a garden, chickens, bees, sheep, and rabbits.  Eventually goats and alpacas.  I'd love any advice!!  Just lob it at me and I'd be ever so grateful.