Read all about our homesteading story and the projects that helped us out along the way in our new book, The Doable Off-Grid Homestead. If you’ve read it, you can now leave a review. It has been quite some time since the creeks ran and the ponds filled and the tanks overflowed, but last week all…
It rained for most of the week here and I can’t quite remember the last year we had such a week. With the rain came more fall-like temperatures and so the soup pot is on rotation. The roosters we butchered last week made an appearance in several pots, including the above Squash and Sweet Potato…
In the two months since Hannah was born the garden is now coming up with little effort. The pigs and meat birds are growing plump on grain and milk and scraps. Mostly, though, I notice that the baby that is my first born is now twelve and looking nearly like a full grown man. I…
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…
