May found us finishing up our summer garden planting. I used to try to plant everything all in one big plant-a-thon day right after our last frost date. That worked just fine when I grew a small garden with a few plants. However, that doesn’t work as well when you try to grow as much […]
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I don’t know about you, but April’s weather made us nervous! Our last average frost date is typically the first week of April…except this year we ended up with freezing temperatures and ice on the chicken waterers that week. Yikes! We had already planted our potatoes at the end of March and had our fingers-crossed
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The days are longer, the trees are budding, and we have eggs coming out of our ears. Spring has officially sprung! March 2021 on the homestead means it’s nearly time to begin planting the garden outside for this year’s round of food preservation. Inside the house, we have been tending cute little sprouts in the
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After our January of skipping the grocery store to clear out the freezer we realized we still have a ways to go to be ready for the summer harvest coming our way in just a few short months. So while we relaxed our grocery shopping limitations for February 2021 on the homestead, we continued trying
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Like we mentioned at the end of 2020, we want to keep better records of what we grow, raise, and eat so that we can more accurately know what we need to get us through until the next harvest. We more or less accomplished month 1 of 12 of this new habit. Therefore, it’s time
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