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If I could only have one book to reference for homesteading, It would be The Self Sufficient Life And How To Live It by John Seymour. You might say that this book was a huge influence in bringing us back to the land of black dirt where we grew up. The first copy of this […] Continue reading The Self-Sufficient Life And How To Live It 
Every spring we are so surprised at how much there is to clean up. The grass is turning green, and soon (probably this week) it will be time to mow. Before we can do that, though, there are leaves, sticks, dead plants, flower beds to clean up, and even a few toys that were left […] Continue reading Thoughts for a Monday Morning 
Even though it doesn’t feel like spring today, we know that it will not be long before our garden is going to be full of young plants. That being the case, it is important to keep our chickens from scratching around in the garden beds. The fences in our chicken run are only about five […] Continue reading How to Clip Chicken Wings 
It has taken a long time for us to call ourselves ‘homesteaders’. The term today seems to carry with it images of people in covered wagons, old men living in the hills, or people who are expert gardeners or that seem to always have all the right knowledge and all the right equipment. There […] Continue reading The Why of Homesteading 
Its monday again and time for an update from the greenhouse and garden. We had an interesting week last week with the greenhouse. The temperature fluctuations that we had in the weather made keeping a steady temperature very difficult. With the way we have it constructed when the sun comes out it heats up very […] Continue reading Seedlings, Compost and Spring |
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