You Know natural feeding has a hold on you when....

[Frosted Rabbits]

-you plan ways to safely make permanent pasture areas with buried wire for safety..

...you plant 'weeds' in flower pots...

..you look through seed catalogs for 'forage' and 'cover crops' that you can 'hay'

.. you bemoan the fact that some seeds are sold by the pound--and you don't have enough dirt to plant them in!

.. you select garden plants because 'the rabbits will like this'

 

[Secuono]

When you let your yard over grow and use 6in hand shears to cut fistfuls at a time for everyone.

 

[boundarybunnyco]

when you are excited about dandelions in your lawn.
when you google annoying weeds you find on your place, to see if they are good for rabbit greens.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

You carry pruning shears and a small trowel in your vehicle so you can harvest weeds from public areas when going to town.

You walk around outside in your socks to collect filaree seeds to share with other natural feeders on RT, and are considering allowing "polar fleece" back into the family wardrobe for the same purpose.

You leave last year's carrots, turnips, and beets in your raised beds so you can harvest their greens, and base your season's planting around them.

You are looking forward to your loony liberal neighbor (whose goal is to restore the flora of his 20 acres to it's "pre-European colonization" state by weeding out all non native plants) to come up to his property so you can pick his brain for weed ID.

The invasive wild mustard that you have tried for years to eradicate by pulling out by the insanely long tap root, while standing on the side of a steep hill and nearly going head over heels backward and tumbling to your death, is now a beloved addition to the landscape... and you are searching everywhere for newly emerging seedlings to transplant so they can be lovingly watered and cared for.

I'll know I'm done for when I cease my war on bermuda grass (or Devil Weed as I call it) and start cultivating it... thankfully, I'm not that far gone. Yet.

 

[5dognightfarm]

When you evict mom's hens from their pasture pens and consolidate them all because, "Mom, we can put more rabbits in here!"

 

[Miss M]

When you hope that the lawn guy will hold off another week before he comes around to mow, so your "hay" will be longer.

When you see storm clouds three days after said lawn guy cuts the grass, and dash outside to collect the "hay" before it rains.

 

[DanaYares]

My kids go nuts and are SO embarrassed when I pull the car off the road at the site of Mallow, Dandelions, Shepard's Purse etc... I keep a bag and pocket knife in the car for easy harvest.

 

[currituckbun]

My kids go nuts and are SO embarrassed when I pull the car off the road at the site of Mallow, Dandelions, Shepard's Purse etc... I keep a bag and pocket knife in the car for easy harvest.

I keep sheers in the car too and to and from soccer practice I am doing the same thing. My car smells...interesting. My kids say it stinks.
The rabbits like it.

 

[skysthelimit]

i've already dug up as much yard as I can to plant.....weeds! Just transplanted some tall clover from an abandoned house tree lawn into my flower beds.

 

[Hoping13]

We are putting a few raised beds into alfalfa/clover mix. We can use small hoops to keep this growing through the winter (hopefully). If not, we'll plan on winter greens for the bunnies.

 

[boundarybunnyco]

when you debate spraying your pasture weeds because some of them might be suitable for rabbits.
when you eye your hay field and think, if I didn't have horses, we'd have enough hay for a zillion rabbits.

 

[RabbitPhotoGirl]

When you decide it's worth the risk to get bitten by a snake sleeping in the knee high grass/hay to raid your neighbors hay field for those nice looking dandelions and clover.

 

[ohiogoatgirl]

you ask whoever is driving to stop for a minute so you can cut/dig up some plants... and they reply "i said no more weeds in my car!"

you add several weeds to your already weedy "herb garden" plan to harvest them for the rabbits.

you ask your dad to sharpen your machettes so you can cut down the waist deep weeds from the garden to feed to the rabbits before you mow it all.

part of the deciding factor of what to grow in this years garden is if you can feed it or any of its parts to the rabbits.

you plan to take a walk by the large area of cattails just so you can harvest them.