Our little front yard garden incorporates wild plants like mullein, bee balm, and the poke ‘tree’ weaving thru the fence....some were transplants, others volunteers.
Yeah, and I think of straightjackets....but if they had a ‘hennery’ and hogs and gardens, maybe some inmates (yeah it calls them inmates) found some pleasing/meaningful tasks. I guess it depends on whether there were guards standing over them menacingly.
This is fascinating, this history I am learning about our area. It was originally called Lunatic Asylum #3, in 1889, but it seems there was positive therapeutic aspects rather than just being a lock up:
” The asylum was physically self-sufficient from the beginning. Spread out across 520...
Ha! In the British show Doc Martin, set in Cornwall, you learn that there had long ago been a mental asylum in nearby Bodmin, so they often use the term, ‘going Bodmin’. Now we’ve got our own Bodmin! I love it!!!!
Today we went to see the Vernon County Youth Fair in Nevada. For those of you not familiar w this town, it is pronounced Ne -VAY-da. (In case you ever go there, you might as well say it correctly.)(Their slogan is Crossroads to Adventure, but there isn’t much there.)
Here are just a couple of...
BTW, BYC’s crowing rooster video contest lineup has a Sebright hen crowing...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/crowing-non-crowing-rooster-video-contest.1532895/page-10#post-25954085
This is my 5 yr old Sebright hen, Moonshine, currently in broody jail. She has never had as much comb/wattles as does @Chicken poppy young bird in question. But, that being said, she HAS crowed before. Sebrights tend to be very outspoken....