It may have been a typical rainy Seattle weekend, but a little rain won't keep a true Pacific Northwesterner indoors. This weekend was the Seattle Tilth Spring Plant Sale, and we had a great time! It is always a wonderful way to connect with our local community, show off our fabulous birds, and introduce them to a whole new generation of potential coop owners. See our photos below, and look on our Education page for more upcoming events with Stone Soup Gardens and our traveling coop! Stone Soup Gardens is happy to announce our recent relocation! It is an exciting transition for us, and one that will bring a host of new opportunities. Living in the Central District was a great start for our business, but we have moved south to Columbia City in order to expand as our business grows. We now have a proper office, an organized tool shed, a much bigger chicken coop for our ladies, and a big yard to develop! First, before we even moved in, we laid the foundation for our new tool shed, outdoor storage, and plant staging area. Gradually we moved into the basement and prepped our new office and indoor tool storage area. I can't tell you how exciting it is to have a space and a place for everything. We built a lovely new coop and run for our little ladies in the front yard. It has great access, shelter from the trees, views of the sidewalk, and a lot more room. We look forward to many happy years at our new location. Stay tuned for more information about upcoming workshops, classes, and photos as we continue to develop and change our new yard into an urban retreat.
Hurray! The Tilth Edible Plant Sale is here!! (May 4-5th, this weekend, at the Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford. ) The girls and I are very excited to be returning as Chicken Ambassadors to one of our favorite Seattle events! This is the major fundraising event for Seattle Tilth which provides great educational programs on urban farming, animal husbandry, and does great work to further farm advocacy. Our birds have reached local celebrity status, having been on numerous tours to book clubs, harvest fairs, and they have now been featured in the Backyard Roots book by Lori Eanes. We thought it would be very fitting for each of the well-traveled ladies to have their own personal profile. Many people have enjoyed getting acquainted with the ladies, they are quite cuddly, and if you are planning on attending any of our upcoming events, you can address each of the ladies by name! COMRADE SASHA is a Rhode Island Red, which makes her an American born communist. Her sister, Karla Marx, sadly passed away recently. Sasha carries on with intelligence, and during our morning ritual, she will come and sit on our feet while we are preparing the feed. LOLA is a showgirl of a Buff Orphington with a lovely red comb. Lola is very sweet, was raised a free ranging lady, but has adapted well to community coop living. She will occasionally take turns with her sister, Shipoopi, to try and hatch unfertilized eggs in the nesting box. SHIPOOPI is a scrappy, cuddly, Buff Orphington, who desperately wants to be a mother. She will sit on unfertilized eggs for weeks at a time, foregoing food and plucking feathers from her belly to help warm the eggs. Her recent attempt at hatching fertilized quail eggs were unfortunately unsuccessful. BOBBI ANNE COUPON is a Black Sexlink with pretty auburn eyes. She really enjoys being held, and is one of the most cuddly girls we've ever had. She is easy to pick up and will often sit for 20 minutes or more with one person holding her. Her namesake comes from Jakes imaginary childhood friends, Bobbi and Coupon. MOUNTAIN ROCK is the most recent addition to the coop-op-a-loop-op. While we were installing a pollinator garden, a Whidbey Island family drove by and asked if we would like a chicken. Inside of the cardboard box was Mountain Rock, who had lost all of her sisters to a raccoon attack. The Seattle Tilth Sale will be her debut performance, and you will notice her by her red leg band. CHICKEN is a sweet Americana. GINGER MCKLUCKINS is also an Americana, intelligent and crafty. She comes from a broken home in Greenlake where raccoons climbed up and into her coop, and took her sisters. Ginger was able to escape and hide between the coop and the fence, where her previous owners discovered her two days later. After intensive therapy here at Stone Soup Gardens, Ginger can be a remarkably warm and loving chicken, though she still suffers from some PTSD. EGG DROP and DUMPLING, both Australorps, are the most youthful of our brood at one year old. These two are from an Australorp breeder, and began their days here by getting picked on by the others, but can now fully hold their own. Egg Drop has white feathers on her head and neck, while Dumpling is a rather rotund girl.
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