How gorgeous. There's something so sweet about a mother hen and her chicks. Unfortunately, hen raised ones rarely like us, so I tend to incubate more.
I just left the following message with canadianrenegade, because they probably missed the growth of the communities while they were away. I'll paste it here for you too.
There's a lot happening to form a support network with the communities at the moment. I didn't realise you hadn't posted this in one, but the Natural Medicine community is a good place for it. Unfortunately, most of the homesteading communities haven't really taken off, but NM is really active and I do the Lotus Garden homesteading newsletter for the community.
Using the communities can help us to bring more rewards your way, but don't feel obliged if it's not your thing.
I actually haven't seen any homesteading communities here on hive, at least not yet. Whenever I write a garden related post, I use "homesteading" as one of my tags, but that tag doesn't seem to be very well followed.
I think jacobpeacock started a homesteading community, but it didn't really take off. Possibly because natural medicine was already so well established with a reasonably big vote.
I only really go through the homesteading and gardening tags once a week when I do the Lotus Garden. I wish I had more time to frequent it more often.
Thank you for this advice! I posted my new article to the NM community :)