I have always loved to cook and if you look at my belly, I love to eat good food! As our homestead has evolved and our food choices from the homestead are now more than ever filled with nutrients and not

I believe my last article was about 4 months ago when I memorialized my good friend Russel. You can find that post here: After his death my wife and I both got into kind of a funk, hard to explain but

We have lived in Southern Kentucky for little more than two years, we love our homestead and have gotten to know some pretty great people. Some of those people have been extremely instrumental in showing

Tomato Harvest My wife and I get asked from time to time “Why don’t you get certified Organic?”   The short answer is - we would rather be transparent that organic!   Our laying hens

Well  it seems like it’s been forever since we have done an update!  Three  weeks or so I believe, lots of stuff going on so let’s jump right in…..You  reach that point when

Colleen  & I have been on our new homestead for better than two years now,  and we can honestly say we love it here, we have made a life for  ourselves, a good life!  We,

I have been working on the road the past few weeks and it is so good to be home, I do not like working away from the homestead but it is what I do so we can live the life we want to here! It is just my

Our good friends and family in Valley City, OH My  first wife Lin came from a farming family from a little town in Ohio,  called Valley City.  If you are not from the area you may

This week I have been working on the road and I am back in Northern Wisconsin, I think I could just about spit and hit the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Much to my surprise when I got here, the tress are

I have written a few article about working on the road, it is one of the things I have to do so we can live the homestead lifestyle we cherish so much. While traveling is a pain, the airline industry has

Living  in the Appalachian Foothills here in Southern Kentucky you come to know  God's wonder in the beautiful scenery he has created.  I cannot think  of another place I would

As  the outer bands of what is left of Hurricane Harvey reach southern  Kentucky our thoughts and prayers turn towards those who have been  devastated by flooding to the south of us.

If you have been following our story here on Steemit you will  remember our chicks that we got a few months back.  We started them in  the brooder and as they grew the moved to our

I posted awhile back about our mistake in planning or shall we say not changing our plans fast enough and the stress the garden suffered because of our failure to act….. See the post here…. We covered

If you have been following us for a while you know I am not a big fan of working on the road, the time spent away from my wife and our homestead is not a good thing. We do what we have to do so we can

I have to travel for work, I have to say it sucks, but I am not going to dwell on that here. You can see one of my previous posts for that rant. Right now I am waiting out a delay at O’Hare Airport and

Our weather here in Southern KY has been shall we say different, now  we have only lived here for two plus years so we don’t have a lot of  history with the area but the neighbors tell

If you live south of the Ohio River, you know what Kudzu is, it's hell!   It  is very hard to get rid of, extremely invasive, if you have it on your  property you will spend hours and hours

I  happen to be a Bloody Mary’s aficionado; late Sunday afternoon is  Bloody Mary time! I believe that (for myself anyway) that I have come up  with the perfect Bloody Mary! There

We have had the privilege to be a part of the Steemit community for 70 plus days now. I am not necessarily a great writer, as a matter of fact it was my worst subject in school. On Steemit I have for a