Tony is hard at work this winter transforming our backyard into the urban version of his West Virginia farm dreams. The central fixture of the yard used to be a beat up metal shed with no doors. It housed some scrap wood, shovels in several stages of disrepair, and our worm compost. It was also the summer dugout of several neighborhood alley cats and (briefly) a family of skunks. I voted complete annihilation of the eyesore vagrant carriage house but the secondary plan of moving it to the far corner and converting its remainder into goat quarters proved to be a feat of d.i.y. re-purposing glory. Using mostly said scrap wood once housed inside the shed and the planks of our deconstructed deck, Tony built a divider within the shed, two gates, and a surrounding pen. He’s most proud of his design skills on the gate blocking the hay storage and milking area. A recent change in the Denver ordinance allows residents to own two goats and up to eight chickens with a one time permit fee of $20. We’re planning on having both! Here’s to our homesteading future.
