We give a lot of updates here, but we don’t tell many stories. I think perhaps we should add in a few more stories for the sake of humor, because who doesn’t want a laugh? To set the stage, we have skunks around us. To really set the stage, we have a lot of skunks around us. Animal Control will come and remove a skunk for $15, but we’ve seen how quickly new skunks move in after the current resident…
Well, it’s official. October marks one year since we started this blog. To be sure, we moved here last June, but it wasn’t until about now in 2016 that we started getting down to business with homesteading. We’ve learned quite a bit in this past year’s time. Reading will only get you so far; as much as I’d like to think that I know it all because I have Professor Google by my side, we’ve found that books and the…
The ducks are almost done with their molt. And by that I mean while they have finished growing out their wing feathers, they just haven’t resumed laying yet. We don’t do freedloaders around here; it’s definitely time for them to get on their game. Meanwhile, our chickens and turkeys had their wings clipped. We separated the poultry from the goats and put them in their own pen. For some reason, while the ducks were more than willing to comply, the…
Steve and I read a lot of blogs and belong to quite a few online groups and forums related to homesteading. Interestingly, only a few of them mention foraging. I don’t know why more people don’t take advantage of foraging. Maybe it makes people think of spending hours in the woods, searching out roots and odd greens, or invokes images those guys on Survivor eating bugs and half rotten fruit? In reality, it just means picking food from an uncultivated…
This year’s garden has been pretty sorry. It’s our first year with a garden, and as we’ve mentioned, the rain gave us quite the set back. Almost nothing of what we planned made it into the ground, and what did go in was, well, just off a bit. The broccoli turned out kind of ok. We got a couple of little broccoli florets (seriously, they can’t even be described as heads) that were tasty, but that’s about all we can…