Its that time of year when we're visited by angels.. The destroying angels. It's amazing. Besides the ones that grow around here that you can eat, these are my favorite mushrooms. They have this cold beauty

It feels like it's taken ages! But now.. Finally, the time has arrived to allow the rabbits to breed! To that end, we gave one of our A-frame pins a new resident! The conversion from rooster coop to rabbit

Everyone needs a medical kit and basic knowledge of first aid. We're pretty avid an this. As such we have three medical kits so far: A small, very mobile one, that can be hung off a belt or vest. A medium

Well, it's been a long time coming! Internet out here has always been on our list, but never seemed pressing.. We like watching you tube and browsing ebay as much as anyone, but its not necessary for our

Behind our house is woods, actually all around our house but especially behind us, and it's a major part of our one acre homestead.. But after living here a while, we noticed that we don't go up there

100 Followers! Thank you all! We have been on steemit around a month and have been shocked by the welcome that we have received! 100 followers seems a huge milestone! And we appreciate you all! We're not

Potatoes have been a staple for Centuries. And with good reason! They're dead simple and, unlike some crops, they have weight, easily filling your belly. Plus, they're good in almost everything! We have

We have built a good many things with the free lumber we received and have already shown the $30 shed, but before that we built two A-frame chicken coops. One was to keep and one to sell, though we ended

We have been working on our house for 2 years now and its finally nearing completion. When we first moved here, we stayed in our camper while working our our house. You see people staying in campers all

When it comes to otherwise unaccounted for money, I have three main go-to's. Long term investment, as in silver. Long term savings, as in change for change, aka our savings for our next homestead.

As with anything in life you have to take both the good and the bad. The unfavorable experience I had when buying the chainsaw (see part 1) did not wholly put me off from using craigslist. Instead it instilled

I have been using craigslist for many years to both buy and sell. What I have found is, you really never know what or who you're going to get. The purpose of this article is three-fold. It will contain

This is a hard one!.... I have a tendency to equate embarrassment with failure' A concept we abandoned some time ago in regards to this way of life. Were in uncharted territory, if not historical at lest

Trying to define happiness is near impossible. Everyone has a different view on it. There is a vast number of answers I could give: Love, friendship, success, peace of mind, seeing the sunrise every morning.

Things are what you choose to believe they are. Given this, why would anyone willingly invest in the lesser of two ? Two nights back, around 10:30 or so, me and the wife were watching a movie. She crocheting,

I have had more than one heated debate on the edibility of this plant. I'm not going to attempt to persuade anyone one way or the other, but for myself I hold this wild edible in high esteem. (Google Image)

I know, i know.. I rarely click on blogs with videos.. But i think this one is worth a look! He is very knowledgeable, and i have watched many of his videos. Every time i watch this one i pick up on something

Putting food on the table 3 times a day is no small feat. We've all come up with easy solutions, however you can't just buy / grow and cook the same thing over and over again. A great way to have more

It's been some time ago that we received a paper in the mail outlining the state of our social security. It was grim reading, but I persevered. There seemed a few points that stuck in my mind, galvanizing

A few days ago our camera ran off... Possibly in search of the keltec. Inquiries have been made and search parties assembled, but so far it appears it has done a heroic job of covering its tracks. If you