We’ve got a garden in (because oh boy, do we have plenty of dirt with the construction going on!), and we’ve been steadily working on it over the past couple of weeks. Instead of deluding ourselves into believing that that this was the year that we were going to get a giant garden in that would cover a large portion of our produce bill, we decided to keep it simple. We also decided to make it a homeschooling lesson for…
We did a decent job reaching our goals last year in 2017. For 2018? Not so much. I considered not even talking about how well we’d done this past year since things fell so far off the mark. But… half of the point of this blog is our own accountability. So, here’s how we did (or, rather, didn’t do): No bees Virtually no homemade cheese Garden? Erm, sort of No online shop No ancient grains, although plenty of all natural…
That’s a very good question – we’ve been involved in so much that I’m not even sure what we’ve been up to. August flew by so fast and was such a blur that I can’t confidently say that August happened. Yet as it is Labor Day weekend I have to come to the conclusion that it must have. I feel like we’ve accomplished nothing, yet I know that is not true – we have done a TON! We’ve had one…
Better late than never! Yes, I recently said we’d be scaling back, and we still are. The garden we put in is small, and since it was so late in the season the amount of crops we could grow were limited. It either had to be very cold hardy or have a remarkably short season, and preferably be a bit of both. So we have peas, carrots, sunflowers and pie pumpkins. Not a lot, but we really don’t need to…
I’ve always said that I like all the seasons. Yes, winter too. I like skiing, the snow, pot roast, watching Father Brown in the evening with Rachel and some hot tea… I like just about all of it. That said, lately I’m reminded about how much I also like it NOT being winter any more. Our little homestead is out of dormancy: we have more eggs than we know what to do with, and the goats are making enough milk…