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Comment on: Blog Post 'Bathroom Barnyard': the sit close to one another and keep warm. To bring them in the house is just wrong... it goes against nature. I have never lost a chickens to the cold yet. I never had a sick chicken either. Lucy Owsley-Goodman we put a simple hoop house up over ours and they are happy for the winter. Unless it gets to -10 or colder over night the water does not freeze as the hens, 18 of 'em, keep the area warm and during sunny days it will get up into the 70's for them. And as other have said they are fine outside in subfreezing weather as long as they have a dry and windless place to go such as a good coop or a hoop house Alli Kat If you have electricity you could also use a submersible aquarium heater. Maybe covered with a flower pot to keep them from breaking it. Amanda Whinery in the category of working harder and NOT smarter...we carried five gallon buckets of hot water down and threw the frozen waterers in it until they thawed and then filled with fresh water...twice a day. It kept our flock of 40 alive .... …; Added by HOMEGROWN.org at 6:47pm on December 12, 2013

Comment for: Jonathan Spee: mitts on dads who love good food! I hope you’ll turn up plenty of projects and ideas here to spur you on, and I hope you’ll be game for sharing some of your own, too—maybe on that coldframe hoop house or any home-brewing experiments—in our member blog, The Stew. (Also, just a note that if you’re ever inclined to repost from your personal blog here on HOMEGROWN, please do! Reposts in full with a link back to your blog, rather than just posting a link, tend to get more eyeballs, but it’s up to you. We just like to help spread the love!) Elsewhere on HOMEGROWN, you can always find the latest additions to the site at the top of the homepage, and if you’ve ever got questions, please don't hesitate to leave a comment on my profile page or shoot me a message. I hope you feel right at home!…; Added by Jennifer at 3:59pm on March 28, 2013

Comment on: Topic 'Chapter 4 discussion': ing. I am planning to give this a try for the first time as soon as autumn begins down here in Australia (in our district, that's in about 5-6 weeks' time). I found his recipes for sheet mulching a wee bit daunting, but he does say, just pile up whatever organic matter you have and that should be good. Especially if you are intending to let it rest before planting into it. I've been composting a lot since we moved out of the city three years ago and a tip from a permie video put me onto a good idea that works for me. I'll try to find that video and post it. Basically what they were doing is creating large round hoops of chicken wire or wire mesh, at least 1 meter diameter (what's that in American? 3 feet??) The hoop is held closed with cable ties. I made three each 1.5 meters across. You fill them up, water them down, let them cook under a tarpaulin and then, this is the cool part, snip the cable ties, unroll the wire mesh from the outside and move it to a spot just next to where it was. Remake your ring and flip everything in. (You probably know all about this!!) But to me it was so cool because the compost heaps shift their way around the farm yard to wherever I want a boost of nutrients. So I did one, flipped almost all of it out and planted pumpkins where it had been. Happy, happy pumpkins! Our new place is big, the soil needs work, there are four pear trees that are seriously under nourished, so instead of compost rolls I'll try sheet mulching underneath them, let them rest for the winter (which here is rainy and frosty but doesn't deep freeze) and see how I go. In the meantime we have a house to build, so I'll be busy...…; Added by Bev Laing to Perma-Curious Beginner's Group at 5:58pm on February 8, 2013