This is a guest post. If you would like to submit your own guest post, click here. Garden design is a very personal thing and is often an expression of your personality. What I like you, you may not and vise versa. Some people like neat and tidy gardens where there are no surprises, others…
Our planet’s most precious resource is water. Over 70 percent of our earth’s surface is covered in water with 97.5 percent of that being salt water. Less than 3 percent of the earth’s water is defined as fresh water and only 3/1000 of this is either too deep in the earth to retrieve or locked…
Do you have a bucket list? Do you know what a homesteading bucket list is? A bucket list is defined as ” a number of experiences or achievements that a person hopes to have or accomplish during their lifetime”. Our homesteading bucket list is where I organize homesteading skills I want to learn and homesteading…
When I first shared this post, I was referencing a few days in our area that were hit with a bit of a blizzard. But I think after all that happened in 2020 and even into 2021, we can all agree that it is super important to be prepared for emergencies and disasters of all…
Whew! What a week! Last week we were hit by a couple of good storms which culminated in our receiving heavy snowfall warnings for a few of the days, one true snow day for our kids’ schools, and another partial snow day because the buses ended up not running at all. Not that my kids…
Hi there! Today I’m sharing something a little different, someone else’s homestead story. I myself love reading or hearing about others’ homestead lives so I thought you might enjoy this as well. Modern Homesteading – Lessons Learned So Far (Part I) By: Victoria Gazeley This rural living gig is still fairly new to us. We’ve…
Life around our little homestead has been busy, to say the least! I had planned to share this updated video tour of our homestead awhile ago, but then Christmas and New Years chaos ensued, so the sharing of this tour just didn’t happen until now. I planned to share this updated video tour of our homestead…
This past week and weekend were a bit sad around the just dabbling homestead as we unfortunately lost our ducks. đ We believe it was a bobcat who found a semi easy food source and decided to go on a killing spree. One of the males got attacked last Wednesday or Thursday, so we attempted to…
Hello, dear friends, it has been a little while as I unintentionally took a bit of a blogging hiatus over the holidays. We had a lovely Christmas filled with lots of time with family and friends and were even gifted some amazing experiences that I can’t wait to share with you this coming year. As…
A couple weeks ago I shared with you my favorite homesteading/farming/gardening books. Today, continuing in the same vein, I thought I would share with you some of my favorite farming videos. Now, some of these videos are longer, feature length, films but they weren’t big box office hits. They are small independent films and I just…