Bombus melanopygus edwardsii
We’ve mostly focused on installing the orchard and vegetable gardens this year, but our gardens would only be marginally productive without some help from our resident pollinators. Some estimates suggest that bumble bees are believed to be responsible for...
A Tale of Two Roosters
Until this last spring, we’d never had roosters at Curbstone Valley, and our intent was to keep it that way, but our last order of chicks resulted in not one, but TWO resident roosters. There are pros and cons to having roosters around. Most people are usually...
Tomato Harvest 2010
It’s been a strange tomato season this year on the Pacific Coast. From Southern California, to northern Washington State, gardeners have been lamenting over the coldest summer temperatures in more than 40 years. Although our personal productivity increased...
Electric Defences
This ‘Fowl Friday’ our focus is keeping our pullets safe from predators. At Curbstone Valley we’re striving for a balance between the native wildlife here, and the domestic feathered inhabitants of the farm. As much as we’d like to give our...
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