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I love it when two of my passions meet in a beautiful way. For those of you who know us personally, we are passionate about regenerating...
I love it when two of my passions meet in a beautiful way. For those of you who know us personally, we are passionate about regenerating...
Country ham. Today is Sunday and we are at home just before our live streamed church service at Mercy Hill. We decided it was time for...
Normally, we use a mix of compost and potting mix that we order. This year, however, with the COVID-19 being forefront in everyone's...
We got new pigs this past week. Here they are on the trailer getting ready to get out into their paddock. The pigs give provide so much...
Yesterday, we completed an experiemnt that was a complete success. Several years ago I read about someone who had totally filled the...
We are always trying to improve our soil. We use our animals, coffee grounds, scraps, grow mushrooms, and even add leftover milk. We...
Raising food is the first step to self-sufficiency. We actually started in a duplex with self-watering pots on top of my cedar hope...
That is how many we started today in our greenhouse. We need to start more but some we will start directly in the ground. These starts...
Our Pioneer Princess is essential for our homestead. We heat our entire house with our wood stove. It gives us hot water when it rains so...
This time of year the weather is starting to warm up. The kids are excited to get back outside more on the farm. The adults are excited...
We have had 4 wethers that have needed to be slaughtered and butchered for a while, but have I mentioned that this has been the winter of...
Last Saturday we were busy. We did some garden clean-up, and with some tears in the plastic of our hoop house, we decided to put our seed...
Today there was a break in the rain. It has rained and rained and rained and rained. We finally braved the mud and muck and headed for...
We have moved back and forth between various seed starting methods for years. Sometimes we plant directly in the ground in the hoop...
We have had more rain that we can remember. The picture above is of one of the fields on our road. Ours is not nearly as bad, but the...
We are able to be sustainable on our farm with meat. Because we concentrate on larger animals for our meat, sustainability is possible....
Lots of animals eat chicken! We have discovered that over the years. We are so thankful to have such a wonderful Great Pyrenees livestock...
One day a few years ago, someone came to deliver something Mike needed for a building project. Ellie, our first Great Pyrenees (our...
Ellie usually joins me when I am milking. She will lay right down beside the milking stanchions, keep the cows and me company, sample a...
This was written by one of our 11 year old girls. I have always wanted to have goats. I would beg my mom constantly. Finally, one day my...