If you’ve caught the hints on social media, we’ve been keeping a secret–we’re purchasing land! To help you keep up with what’s growing at Cottage Farmstead this year, we’ve put together a August 2021 homestead video roundup highlighting the latest happenings around these here parts. Enjoy!
Well that didn’t go exactly to plan! Nothing like a propane burner leak to change plans. You can read all the books or watch all the youtube videos, but you can’t beat hands-on experience. Because it never goes by the book 100% of the time!
You don’t have to own a ton of land or acreage to start building your a homestead. So much of homesteading is a mindset and a skillset. Take a tour around our suburban homestead and get some ideas on how to optimize the space you have while you wait for your land.
We’ve had a bit of an open secret up our sleeves these past few weeks.😉 Our offer on a parcel of gorgeous land was accepted and it has been so exciting to have a real physical place to begin shaping with all that we’ve learned in that last decade about growing food and raising livestock. Theoretical no more!
The rain held off just long enough for us to get the first harvest of drying beans off the vine! The trick with drying beans is that letting them dry on the vine is ideal…so you have to hope mother nature cooperates.
Dowsing for water, divining rods, or water witching–it goes by many names, but it is one way to find water to dig a well. Does its really work?
One of our favorite summer soups using the bounty of the garden.
Join us on a quick garden tour as we harvest the tomatoes, beans, and okra….might be a wee bit over grown!
One of our favorite harvests each year! Shucking the popcorn and seeing what colors of the rainbow we have, plus selecting seed corn for the following year.
In a follow-up to the prior video, we shelled our popcorn after allowing it to air dry in the garage for a week using my great-grandfather’s corn sheller: