Postcards: 4 Weeks

mixing feed rations :: trapping coons :: sweet Hannah

3 Reasons to Consider Homebirth

my youngest and I in our bed, just after his birth Last week Megan allowed me to write a guest post for her in her series on natural, intervention-free birth. You can read it here: 3 Reasons to Consider Homebirth.

Raising Cornish-Cross Meat Birds: Week 9

I actually had to go back and look at the date of my last post to see how old these birds are. It turns out it’s been just about a month since our last update and things have definitely changed. The first major change is that we got netting up over the whole chicken run….

Letting Them Help

Sometime early last year – before Hannah was born – I started doing something with the children that has kind of changed my life. I don’t throw phrases like that around a lot, but sometimes small decisions really do change the course of your days. This was one of them. For years I had struggled…

End of June Postcards

The canner has been running nearly every single day; often twice per day. The tomatoes are getting tall, the cucumber salads daily, and the pickles are fermenting by the gallon. Oh, and we have a potential watermelon farmer on our hands who also happens to be smitten by this baby sister of his. See you…

Hogs Come to the Homestead (again)

Do you guys remember the day we accidentally started raising hogs? Well, in the end I’m not sure if I gave you the update about how we did end up eating two of them but all of them escaped from the fence at one time or another and that is how they met their demise….

Ordering My Days (and a recent day in the life)

Lately I have been feeling a bit of a general time crunch that has coincided with a conviction that I need to be more deliberate in ordering my days. I’m very type B and have no natural proclivity for organization, scheduling, or deadlines. So, homeschooling and caring for four young children with weekly freelance deadlines…

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Adam says:

September 1, 2018 at 7:31 PM

Is that feed for your dairy cow?
What recipe do you use?

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