All the initial startup work is paying off! We’ve got tomatoes ripening on the vine (and they are tasty!), roses are in bloom, strawberries galore, purple pole beans, onions, herbs, and the fall garden sprouting! I absolutely love the homesteading life. I get to feel the satisfaction of harvesting the literal fruits of my labor,Continue reading “Backyard Economy”
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Victory Garden
Increasingly it appears that much of our modern society is becoming more and more uncertain. In the last two years I’ve heard, and have asked myself questions like… Do our votes really count? Can we afford gas prices much longer? Will this inflation ever quit? Are food shortages really on the way? With so manyContinue reading “Victory Garden”
Happy Hen House
The time has come! Our once fluffy butt chicks have graduated into 3 pullets and a rooster ready to spring the brooder. So, yesterday we put them out in the coop for the first time. It’s been bittersweet for the humans, but the birds couldn’t be happier. They have room to run and scratch aroundContinue reading “Happy Hen House”
Cultivating The Dragon
We at the Artful Homesteader have embarked on a perilous and unconventional journey. One full of danger and suspense. Exciting and hopeful, yet unpredictable. This trek must be traveled with careful attention to detail, and precise measurement. This perilous mission is growing, propagating, and fruiting the prickly dragon fruit plant right here, in Northwest Washington.Continue reading “Cultivating The Dragon”
Modding The Quad Squad
If you’ve been following me the last few weeks then you know I’ve been working on a chicken coop for my four chicks. The coop is coming along nicely, and my girls are pretty happy mother cluckers living in the main room of the house (at least for another week). They are the stars ofContinue reading “Modding The Quad Squad”
Food Forest In Bloom
The warm weather has arrived in the Pacific Northwest after what seemed like eons of rain, snow, random hail storms (in April??), and then more rain. The strawberries have been very happy about the excessive water though, and today we picked our first ripe berry of the season. We shared it as a family, andContinue reading “Food Forest In Bloom”
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