I am trying to get all of my tropical fruit in earlier this year than I did last year. Last year I was about a month off from getting ripe homegrown papayas and then it frosted killing all of my plants.

These little dogs aren't the first thing you think of when you hear "farm dogs" but it is amazing at what they can do. We found these dogs at the end of our road on the coldest day of the year.

I have a bunch of leftover papaya seeds so I thought that I would try to do a giveaway. I received a couple of comments last year saying that some people wanted to grow them. Here is how you enter in the

After a week of painting cabinets and doors it was finally time to hang some of them back up. Since we have been starting the doors at different times we only had four to hang up. I have been working on

Our sheep have been cooped up in a little area for the wintertime since they bust through our six strand and seven strand barbed wire fence. So today we decided to let them out in the yard so they could

I have been on steemit for about eight months and I have been posting a little bit of everything. I just thought that I would ask what yall enjoyed reading from me. Here are some of the categories that

We have finally succeeded in making our own beef bacon. Well actually this is the first year that we have tried to make our own bacon but it worked. Here is how we made it. After making it we had to slice

The time has come to remodel the kitchen so my mom said I could have the week off school to help. My job is painting the cabinet doors which is a very time consuming and tedious job, each door taking almost

Our family uses an average of eight eggs a day and we sell about four dozen a week. We get all of these eggs from about 30 chickens. Each winter day we are getting what we usually get in the summer time,

A few days ago I got my pink banana seeds. This morning I got around to doing the research to plant them and I also took the first step towards planting them. Here is my earlier post on tropical plants

We have had some bad deer problems resulting in several of our pear trees dying. We put up electric fences around all of our vineyard and orchard but we still couldn't keep the deer from killing the pears

Well this is our fifth winter here on the homestead and it finely got cold enough that we could go out on the pond without falling through. It wasn't thick enough to go out in the middle but you could

This year, we had several steemians come over and help us butcher our cow. We had @papa-pepper, @mericanhomestead, @beatitudes8, @shalomacres, and me, @randomstuff. We began the day at 6:30 around our

As we were butchering our cow I happened to see a bottle of water on the workbench and since we had a fire going in the wood stove at the time I thought that I would try to boil it on our wood stove for

Well it is that time of the year when one of the cows goes to freezer camp. We have several friends coming over @mericanhomestead, @beatitudes8, and his son Tim, and @papa-pepper. As we set up I thought

Well it is the final day of the black and white contest. I am nominating everyone who views this post today for the seven day bnw challenge. The rules of the game are as follows: 7 random black & white

Sorry that I missed yesterday. The rules of the game are as follows: 7 random black & white images that represent an aspect of your life Present one image every day for seven days No people No explanation

If we would have tilled our carrot patch it would have killed all the carrots we missed and then they never would have gone to seed. This is was not a big patch, it was only around 4x10 but it was loaded

Day number five. The rules of the game are as follows: 7 random black & white images that represent an aspect of your life Present one image every day for seven days No people No explanation Nominate

This has been a very interesting contest, and in a way fun. Here goes day number 4 The rules of the game are as follows: 7 random black & white images that represent an aspect of your life Present