So I told y’all about butchering the cow. Boy howdy is she tasty in tacos, casseroles, stews, burgers, liver and onions, and just about any other way you slice her (ha!). I’m also pretty sure her offspring holds a grudge.

For weeks after we took Cholula into the butcher her daughter [...]

Before we moved to our homestead we purchased a longhorn cow from a neighbor through a herd share program. We arrived in Texas on the heels of the worst drought in recorded history, so needless to say keeping that longhorn fed was a pricey proposition.

So we decided it was time to [...]

I watch from the window as I feed our baby girl. These two boys, too old to be my babies and too young to be anything else, walk down the road toward their Papa to help build a chicken coop.

Each boy wears a straw hat, but that [...]

We are blessed to live in a community where other folks are attempting to grow their own food and live off-grid. It is a blessing in countless ways, one of them being that we are able to walk to our food sources.

I like to call it agrarian [...]

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This post was originally published in October, 2009 – a full two years before we arrived here on our land. It seems fitting to republish while we are hurrying to get as many seeds into the ground as we can.

Previously in [...]