Thanks for the encouragement dear! Your place sounds like somewhere I would love to visit someday and like you have an ideal place for solar... all in good timing.

Yes, we actually just killed all of our chickens. Next year I think we'll be caught up in building a house and the chickens don't really lay well except as you say in spring/summer. One day I would love a flock to range around and self replicate ;) but until then, I am afraid we'll have to start buying eggs from our friend.. Not afraid of that haha, but I do love having animals around, but we can't do it all!

It IS amazing what we can grow ourselves, quite easily, and that it takes care of a lot of our diet. We're also quite happy with it, and growing your own 1,000,000x out competes what can be bought in the store... Much love!