Spring Starts in February




There is no one right way to homestead; that much I have learned in six years. There are a plethora of circumstances folks bring with them when they endeavor to live on and from the land. Certainly our own situation was not all that unique, moving across country with two young children and another on…
Right now our chicken field is the stuff of green dreams. I haven’t gotten out there to show you photos yet, partially because I tend to shoot out there to pick some supper fixings and shoot back in before the munchkins start getting restless. I can walk down rows of kale and turnips and sweet…
Gardening is a funny thing here, to which I don’t think I’ve quite yet acclimated. The tomato plants that had been piddling along all summer with just enough fruit to snack on are dying back. But then those tomato starts we planted in May that never really grew with the heat are up and flowering….
Maybe it’s the new baby in the house… or perhaps the entire month of February in which our whole family was sick. Or, maybe we could chock it up to two full and lovely weeks of family visiting… and the car accident that kept them here a bit longer. (They were spared injury but the…
Note: This week only you can get 200 gluten and grain-free recipes in five eBooks for only $7.40. Gardening when it counts, when your life depends on it, when that is how you feed your family, when you can save money or need far less money in the kitchen – I’ve been thinking a lot…
The early bird gets the worm, they say, and when it comes to Texas gardening I really think that is true. Back in the Midwest, June through September were the months in which you could find garden goodness of all kinds. We now mostly count those months as off season months with their persistent heat…
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