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Chickens, garden, Herbs

Lonely (?) Days on the Farm

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Can’t say that staying home has been that bad, except not seeing friends and no Farm Tours. (Ok, that’s bad…but…) There’s always plenty to do on the farm. What’s going on at Blue Hen?

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THE BUNNIES

  • Bunnies @ the Tiny Tilly

The bunnies have a new home…the Tiny-Tilly fenced in yard. Here they have their own stash of Mexican sunflowers and other goodies. These bunnies are California White / New Zealand cross. They’re lovin’ being out of their cages in the Rabbit Barn. We have two females (Fluffy & Fluffy) and one male, (also Fluffy. Our youngest granddaughter named them). Gestation for a rabbit is 31 days. We’re hoping to have more Fluffies in a couple of months.

Feed your Fluffies lots of fresh greens everyday and hay once a week. Coastal hay is fine. No need to get fancy . Remember that animals will eat what they get used to. Rabbits pellets 1/2 cup a day will give them the minerals and trace elements they need.

HERB TEA and COOKING SPICES

We have herb teas by the cup-teabag, the pot-teabag, and by the jar. Click the Shop link to check out our tea selection.

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The Herb Garden at Blue Hen Farm

Check out our selection of herbs for cooking! Available in 4 oz. and 8 oz. Bulk herbs: parsley, basil, sage, rosemary, oregano, thyme, chives, and bay. These are our own herbs, cut fresh and dried to order.

We have spice mixes for: Curry, Pork & Collards, Pork Roast Rub, Milk Kefir Smoothie, and Beet Pickled Eggs. We have our own Garam Masala.

EGGS & CHICKENS

Eggs for $3.50 / dozen and our own broiler chickens $12 for up to 5lbs and $15 for 5 lbs and over. These birds are free-ranged with supplemental organic, fermented feed. This is what chicken is supposed to taste like! Local pick up.

Mrs. Roo

WHIMSICAL CHICKENS

Indian Jungle Fowl Hatching Eggs – these little beauties are the original chicken. The males are bright colors and the females are great brooders. A whimsical free-range option for your farm… $10 a dozen for these unusual hatching eggs

.Indian Jungle Fowl - the Original Chicken

Quail – Help us rebuild the Quail population that is down almost 80% in the last decade! These birds are fun to keep on your farm for the unusual calls and foraging noises. Remember the “Bob-White” call you used to hear in the woods as a kid? That’s the “Bob-White” quail… a whimsical and social bird.

  • Pharaoh Coturnix
    Pharaoh Coturnix
  • Pharaoh Coturnix
  • Pharaoh Coturnix eggs in incubator
  • Jumbo Coturnix
    “Jumbo” Coturnix…sooo tiny!
  • quail eggs

BE HEALTHY

Eat fresh and fermented foods. Raise and grow as much food as you can. What you can’t produce yourself, buy local.

Establish a healthy “herbal environment”. Use fresh and recently dried herbs in your cooking. Eat Milk Kefir for bonehealth. Drink Herb Teas.

Stay home as much as possible. Stay outdoors as much as possible. Get your Vitamin D from the sun. Just a few minutes a day is all it takes to keep your Vitamin D levels up. Stay active…trail walks or runs in minimalist shoes through the woods. Connect with nature.

OUR 2 Cents

Don’t eat fast or processed foods. Don’t eat sugar.

Keep your immune system healthy and we can get through this tough time.

Happy Homesteading,

T.

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Herbs, Kitchen, Soil Building

Herbs for your good health

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A cup or two of herb tea each day goes a long way toward strengthening your natural immune system, very important as we face the challenge of the Coronavirus pandemic.

But herb mixes for tea can be expensive. It’s a shame to have to buy several different herbs in bulk when you only need a small amount of each to reap the benefits. At Bent Pine we have put together small quantities of various herbs in petite glass jars, enough to make several pots of a variety of teas. You can purchase the glass container with your favorite tea blend and then refill the bottle when you run out.

Check out the different tea mixes, as well as the spice blends for your favorite recipes. Click the Shop link on the top navigation bar to review all the goodies from Bent Pine Farm, or click the SHOP link below.

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Happy Homesteading,

T.

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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, & Thyme

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We are excited about the new herb garden at Blue Hen Farm. Opal basil, green basil, chives, rosemary, thyme, parsley, sage. We added burro’s tail sedum, sunflowers, and a patch of green cotton.

The summer savory is doing well, and but the cilantro has already bit the dust! Difficult to grow cilantro and coriander in Florida. The flax is hanging in there, although we don’t hold out a lot of hope for that either. There’s a patch of dill for pickling cukes, but we haven’t been able to get the white cotton or the bee balm to germinate!

Many of these herbs are used in our Signature Herb Tea recipes. We have teas that promise to calm your nerves, reduce your stress, lower your blood pressure, and lift your spirits. The difficulty is that these things happen over a period of time, not immediately as with antibiotics and prescription drugs.

What herb teas do is help to balance the good bacteria and bad bacteria to support and strengthen your immune system so that your body can fight its own wars. Lesson learned: it takes consistency and patience. That’s actually not a great surprise…just hard to do.

Blue Hen Herb Garden July 2019

Happy Homesteading,

T.