We are starting a garden at Beth's house

Beth has a house. It is an old house in Washington, Utah. She has spent so much time and energy on her home and it is beautiful. With so much done to the inside, we all decided to take advantage of the water rights and large yard to do a bunch of work outside.

The plan thus far.... Garden and Chickens.

The back yard was uneven and had been spread with herbicide a few years back so we decided that the very top soil should be removed and that the entire area needed to be somewhat level so that we can properly irrigate. Beth has many friends. Her friend Dennis had a skid loader so he allowed us to borrow it. Thank you so much Dennis! We are still in the process, today there was rain but yesterday, we moved a lot of dirt. It was so much fun! Ben and Dave do not have any experience but they got the hang of it pretty quickly.

We are attempting to forage for materials for the chicken coops. We found a nice old barn out in LaVerkin. We contacted the owner's the sister-in-law that lives next to it and I think we can find the owner this week. The place is very run down but it is full of old bee hive boxes and cedar planks and steel barrels and even a old frame for glasshouse panes.

Dennis also offered to give us 10 chickens. Dennis is awesome. He also said that he has a bunch of spare material in the way of pipes and possibly other building materials.

We would like to add gardening boxes to the top of the chicken coops. Dave is a wood artisan so I am sure that he will come up with some fresh and innovative designs for the structure that will allow for a perfect chicken habitat in the desert. Hopefully, gardening on top of the coops will cool things down for the poor birds in the hot sun.