How To Keep Chickens Cool in the Summer
Every year in the summer I see new chicken owners wondering how to keep chickens cool. We live in southern Arizona near Tucson. It gets very hot here every year…
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July 8, 2024
An Update on The Geek Homestead
It has been 3 years since our last post on The Geek Homestead. We have had many changes and just life in general happen the past 3 years. A few…
July 6, 2024
Night-blooming Cereus: 2021 Bloom Night #2
Our remaining 2 and a half night-blooming cereus plants bloomed last night and it was our first day of monsoon weather. They gave us a beautiful show!
July 1, 2021
Night-blooming Cereus: 2021 Bloom Night #1
Last year, we were delighted by the flowers on our five peniocereus greggii, also called night-blooming cereus or queen of the night. This year, we have been watching our night-blooming cereus since the beginning of June. Last week, I took the kids on a vacation to the beach in California and was hoping that these magnificent flowers would wait for me to come back. And they did!
June 30, 2021
Let’s Can Some Jam!
We were running low on homemade jam, so we decided to spend a Saturday morning canning. Just for fun, we threw in some candied jalapenos too!#can some jam
June 13, 2021
KiwiCo Electrochemistry Lab
The Electrochemistry Lab is ideal for your older students to do while younger ones watch. Make sure there is still an adult present to supervise though!
March 28, 2021