The high growing and food preservation season has wound down. To reflect the slower pace, our YouTube channel has reduced to weekly content for the more dormant winter season ahead…plus we’ll soon have our hands full building a house. Expect plenty more content come next spring! But to help you keep up with what’s growing […]
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When it comes to growing in the garden, winter always seems to sneak upon us! The refreshing air of October quickly turns into the nippy air of December, and many crops do not like this change. There is nothing like fresh salads, radishes, and kale during the cool fall and winter months. But how can
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Cock-a-doodle-doo! It’s time for the September 2021 chicken update. We’ve heard our first adolescent crows coming from the backyard this past month. Elsie’s summer hatch of chicks are officially mature…and the little roos unfortunately can’t stick around long-term in suburbia. We knew this going into allowing Elsie to hatch eggs, but it’s still a bit
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It’s that time of year again. Fall is in the air..well just a hint of it down here in the South. But all things pumpkin and apple are being celebrated, which means it’s squash season too. The past two years we began growing some of our own winter squash and pumpkins for eating and eco-friendly
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To help you keep up with what’s growing at Cottage Farmstead this year, we’ve put together a September 2021 homestead video roundup highlighting the latest happenings around these here parts. Enjoy! Wondering how much fence you need for 10 acres or so? We were too, so we borrowed a measuring wheel to learn how much
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Welcome autumn and hello crocktober! It’s the season of simmering soups, roasts, and more in your slow cooker or on the stovetop. While we’ve shared some of my favorite soup recipes here before, we haven’t shared how to make easy homemade pumpkin puree from your own homegrown pumpkins (or leftover ones from all your fall
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Carrots. The base of nearly every soup recipe. Delicious raw with dip or slowly roasted in a glaze. What’s not to love about this versatile and delicious vegetable? Too bad carrot germination isn’t as easy as pie! Over the last few years of trying to grow more carrots and figure out how many we need
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The August 2021 Chicken Update this month unfortunately has a sad start. We had to say farewell to sweet Amelia at the beginning of this month. She was a sweet blue orpington and was a big bird in her prime. She’d had health issues for nearly 2 years (malnutrition issues from a pendulous crop that
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After painstakingly picking popcorn kernels off the cob by hand our first year growing our rainbow popcorn blend, we decided we needed to find an affordable small-scale corn sheller to make the job easier. We had been keeping an eye on Craigslist and FB Marketplace for an antique corn sheller, when we learned that my
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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
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