Postcards: 4 Weeks
mixing feed rations :: trapping coons :: sweet Hannah
mixing feed rations :: trapping coons :: sweet Hannah
It seems like a good week for introductions, what with the solar oven finally getting its own announcement and all. And if that does, then surely this new living space should have its own post, right? The last few weeks have been a flurry of activity on what we are calling the new cabin. Walls…
Annabelle declared a couple of weeks ago that Hannah had taken over Mama’s life. She is a funny one, that oldest daughter of ours, and not too far from the truth. She wasn’t complaining but rather stating what seemed an obvious fact to her. At six-years-old this is the first baby she’s been a bigger…
One of the greatest gifts we have been given through this agrarian pursuit is that, though the days may often be overflowing and quite long, they are nearly all spent together. When Daddy is working he is sometimes in his office, often out on the land, or a very short walk down our dirt road….
I have delivered both of my boys at home with caring and skilled midwives. I was able to labor and push however and whenever I needed to. I want every mother to have that experience. It is not important to me that every woman have their baby at home, but that every woman is given…
All photos courtesy Kate Downham of The Nourishing Hearthfire. Many aspiring homesteaders dream of a dairy cow grazing contentedly on lush pasture, giving generous amounts of nourishing milk, and all the cream, butter, and cheese that can be made from it. To get to this point is a lot more complicated than dreaming, and one…
I sit down, laptop in hand, breakfast by my side. Stewart is manning the children, breakfast, and the morning school activities and I am in a quiet room with enough coffee to float me down a river. I guess that’s what it takes to bang out some photo editing and key strokes these days. But…
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Is that feed for your dairy cow?
What recipe do you use?