We started off the season with a new flock of chicks and some veggie starts. All of them have grown so much in the last few weeks. So here is the progress update! Starting off with the garden; we bought some tomatoes, peppers, sugar snap peas, purple pole beans, squash, zucchini, and pumpkins, as wellContinue reading “How It Started/How It’s Going”
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The Times They Are A Changin’
Now that the beautiful Indian summer has disappeared here in the Pacific Northwest, and things are a bit more dreary, it’s time for some things to change around this homestead! The garden is ready to be cleared of all the dead tomato plants and vines, and the huge poke weeds we let grow too bigContinue reading “The Times They Are A Changin’”
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Backyard Economy
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”
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”
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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