Finally, after much promise, here are the pictures of the homestead you’ve been reading about.

This is our beehive. Since my last entry, my very good friend and Philadelphia Bee Keeper’s Guild member Dan Duffy combined the hive that left with the old one. Hopefully, the old queen will kill the new queen so our old queen can guide our bees through the winter.

This is our coop set up. In the front of the picture is our laying    house that is attached to the chicken fencing that closes in the run. The hen house in the back of the picture is in the run and is where our hens will spend the winter. Right now they just stand on the lid and poop.

This is a good side view of what the hen house looks like and the run. I really like the little fencing and house. It keeps them contained and we can still let them out to roam around and eat bugs. The chicken in the picture is Tomato. Not shown is her counterpart Tomaato, our alpha hen Mother Clucker and our runt, Tutti.

This is a great shot of our cobb oven and the rest of our community cooking and hanging area. We plan to build this up even more to provide a space where our growers and community members can cook right from the garden. Right now, our dog Honey Pie is enjoying it.

And last but not least, a shot of Emerald St. Urban farm, which my fiance Elissa started a few years ago. It may be just a small city block, but it’s one less vacant lot in our neighborhood and it has been keeping me fed all summer.

So there you are, a little window into our world. And I’ll make a promise, more pictures in my posts. Hopefully for now, these will do. Until the next post, this is the note from the urban homestead.

-Nic