Hi! We’re a family of six who somehow went from zero yard to full-on backyard dreams in just two years.

Not long ago, we lived in a house with absolutely no yard. None. Zip. Our “garden” consisted of a few sad containers fighting for survival in about four hours of sunlight a day. We tried. We Googled. We hoped. The results were… underwhelming. But we loved the idea of growing our own food, even if our tomatoes clearly did not love us back.

Then we moved.

Two years ago, we landed in our suburban home on 0.75 acres. With real space, real soil, and real sunlight, our backyard dreams officially got out of hand.

We started small—dabbling (again) in gardening, this time with a lot more optimism and a lot more sunlight. And then one day, someone said, “What if we got chickens?”
And someone else said, “Sure!”
And that’s how Oops, We Bought Chickens was born.

We’re brand-new chicken owners, enthusiastic beginner gardeners, and very much learning as we go. This blog is our honest, messy, funny, and sometimes muddy journey into backyard farming, told from the perspective of people who absolutely Googled everything first.

Here you’ll find:

• What’s working in our garden (and what very much isn’t)
• What we’re learning about raising chickens in the suburbs
• Our wins, our flops, and our “why did we think this was a good idea?” moments
• Tips we wish we’d had before we started

If you’re new to gardening, new to chickens, or just here for the backyard chaos, you’re in the right place.

Welcome to our little corner of the internet.
We’re figuring it out one coop, one garden bed, and one Google search at a time.