At some point in everyone’s gardening journey, there comes a day when you start to run out of room, or you want to extend your garden season. You look at your options, and inevitably you start seeing beautiful greenhouses, built in beautiful backyards, with beautiful plants filling it up. Then you see the not-so-beautiful price […]
In an effort to document our journey through homesteading better and more tangibly, I’ve decided to do a “Homestead Month in Review.” I’ll write monthly articles encompassing all the things we accomplished on the homestead. I’ll also be documenting recipes I tried, knitting and crochet projects I finished/ started, and things I learned. I hope […]
While you won’t be eating sun-ripened tomatoes for a few months, there are plenty of seeds to sow right now! Taking advantage of these cold-hardy plants will help you extend your growing season, and get you eating fresh garden food way before tomato time. Where should you start your seeds? Growing Zones There are a […]
This past year we came so far in our homestead. We almost tripled the size of our garden, we got bees, and we got three Silver Fox rabbits. I worked on canning, freezing, and preserving our harvest, and improved my baking and cooking skills. I’m proud of how far we’ve come, but my husband and […]
Here we are! It’s Christmas time already, and trust me, I’m more surprised than any of you because that means baby #2 is coming in a little over a month! In honor of the most wonderful time of the year, I wanted to create a gift guide to share some of the best gifts for […]
You’ve made the decision. You’ve caught the self-reliance bug, and you want to have your own homestead. But, your HOA won’t allow chickens. What can you do? Here are three things you CAN do while homesteading without chickens. Homesteading Without Chickens – It’s Possible! Nothing screams homesteading like farm fresh eggs right out your back […]
Today’s post is as much for me as it is for you. This is a garden recap: a record of all the successes, failures, and in-betweens of the 2022 garden season. The biggest change we made was starting a Back to Eden style area around our raised beds. Growing with woodchips has some huge pros, […]
We’re raising meat rabbits! Here’s why. When you’re living on a quarter of an acre in an HOA, it might seem like you’re stuck. Like there’s nothing you can do but wait until the time is right to get your own piece of land. But that’s just not true! Meat rabbits are just one of […]
A few weeks ago I shared with you how to cure your own garlic. It’s really quite easy! All it takes is a little patience 🙂 Well… I’ve been patient and my garlic was finally cured and ready to store just a few days ago! I was so excited! You’ve probably seen pretty Pinterest pictures […]
So you just pulled your first bulbs of garlic out of the ground. You can’t believe it worked. You did it! You grew garlic! But now what? You can use the garlic you grew right away. So if you need it for dinner tonight, go for it! But if you want to store it a […]