One of the statements that we often hear is a marveled “I don’t know HOW you do it, I could never do that!” The fact of the matter is that most of what we do is not hard. Indeed, most of it is pretty easy. Tapping maple trees is probably the easiest of those things; I think more people should do it it’s so simple. Though we’re in the throes of winter and only just finished a brutal polar vortex,…
Having four boys is a joy, a blessing, and…..expensive. Especially when it comes to things like healthy food. We really want to do better on the garden but until we figure out how to work with the space and soil that we have, we’re looking at a pretty large grocery bill. The keys to grocery budgets, according to a vast number of websites and magazines, are to shop multiple stores for the best deals and to use coupons. Now, call…
No ‘big’ things on the homestead, but there have been plenty of ‘little’ things to keep us busy as of late. January isn’t much a month for ‘doing,’ but it is a great month for dreaming, planning and organizing. It might be the dead of winter, but kidding season has already started for those who breed their does early in the season. This would not be us; we have a solid 2 months before we have to even think about…
Ten years…. TEN! In some ways it seems like it’s only been a short while – in others it feels like it was never any different. I don’t know that either of us saw where we would end up after 10 years. A large family, a big old yellow farmhouse and a couple of chickens …. that was the dream picture. I don’t suppose we’re far off the mark, but boy was there a lot in there amongst all! 4…
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…