In Beautiful St. Margaret's Bay, Nova Scotia

We're so blessed to be living in such a mild climate. Our family has lived in other areas of Canada where it would have already snowed by now. Here on the East Coastline we still have nice warm weather, and plenty of growing still happening. The colours of the trees are beginning to change, and a lot of vegetation is decaying, yet the final throes of summer are still with us.

The weather today is the bee's knees. A little overcast outside, but humid and warm.

The sugar peas I planted in late August are doing wonderfully.

A butternut squash growing happily on our front walkway...

The green beans I planted in late August! The have flowers :) YAY!! I wasn't sure if I'd be able to get another crop of them out because beans are kind of wusses in the cold, but it looks like we will be eating fresh beans again soon!

Black Eyed Susan's still going fairly strong...more bees too.

Sunflowers starting to look very very dark and creepy, I love it!

Our Flocks

Egg layers in the front of the photo and in the back, in their own enclosure/coop, are the broiler birds. I had been letting the egg layers free range all day lately until I noticed a lot less eggs being laid...so I went on a hunt...a literal easter egg hunt (we have easter egger chickens) and lo and behold I find two nests! One in the big greenhouse, and one out in the woods. It's all the pullets doing it, I found teeny tiny green and pink eggs in the nests. So, unfortunately I need to keep them in for a while until these little teenagers (pullets) get used to laying in the nesting boxes with the rest of the hens.

A Chicken Swinger

Grace and her 9 babies which our neighbour will be taking home in a couple weeks.

As you can see I am taking all my photos outside the run haha, they're just too good at escaping when I open the door, so I'm leaving it shut to avoid another easter egg hunt.

Preening on a milk crate :)

Last but certainly not least, the broiler birds that will feed our family all winter...this is a big part of what self-sufficiency in Canada looks like.

Thanks for moseying around the ol' Homestead with me, I'll just be here counting my easter eggs LOL!