We set some big goals for our first five years and were blessed to accomplish them. Learn more about our first 5-year plan in our last blog post here. So now what? What’s next? Great question! We are still formulating the how of the homestead vision, but today I thought we’d share some of the […]
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A few years into trying to freeze enough green beans and can enough tomato sauce to last all winter, I had the realization…if I could just shift the base ingredients of all our recipes to homegrown our diet would be 30-50% closer to self-sufficient. What were those base ingredients? Onions, garlic, and carrots…all three things
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Want how much it costs to raise backyard chickens? Wondering if selling eggs makes a profit or if your chickens are just expensive pets? Many of us get into homesteading with the goal of becoming self-sufficient and saving money on groceries by growing or raising most of our own food. But at the same time
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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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Seed catalog season is here! Time to dream about this year’s garden, begin planning layouts, and figure out how to fit everything you want to grow in the available garden space. If you’re anything like us, you’ve acquired quite the stash of seeds over the years to the point you don’t remember what you have…and
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