After hitting some garage sales today, we decided to let the chickens free range a bit for the first time. They are really liking the potato patch, which is fine with me as it is done, aside from the beans

As each day gets a bit busier than the next, I thought I would drop in and show you just a bit of what has been going on this past week I put together another custom made skirt and it is the first in my

I am going to do my best that every Friday I share with you a handful of Steemians that have inspired me during the week. So because I am "stealing" the idea from @bitcoin-dood. We want to make

Monday I found a soft-shelled egg in my coop! What is this craziness?? Since I've already done a lot of research, I knew what it was and why it happened. BUT, I figured it would be great to share with

The very first fermentation starter I had made was the ginger bug. I started this for the sake of making homemade soda and mead and it worked great. I had found the idea of the ginger bug on a blog page

I've never much enjoyed reading books. Mostly because in school I HAD to. I never wanted to read what they wanted me to read, so it never was really fun. Once I did read, I had a hard time with comprehension.

I've been drawing a blank when thinking about @kiaraantonoviche's newest Homesteading Challenge... To tell you all about an embarrassing story... Because, well... So far anything I've done in the homesteading

Yesterday I was on my back deck just watching the gucks and chickens, like I usually do, when suddenly there was quite the ruckus going on in the guck pools. Funnily enough, the geese were just swimming

Dear friends, I apologize I have not been on here much lately, I have many blog posts to write still and I promise they are coming but just when I think I cannot get any busier than I am, the next day

Hmmm, let's see what I can scrounge up this week! It doesn't seem like a whole lot happened this week on the 'stead but, I'm sure something interesting has come about... OH right! Yes! So these three

I love making salads from my garden. To me they are more than just a healthy side dish, they are a work of art. Through the season, my salads morph a bit according to what is currently growing in my garden.

Homemade wild picked blackberry syrup on top of organic, hand milled whole wheat, calendula, and hemp seed pancakes. My pancakes are never the same, I do not follow a recipe, I just throw them together

I still have 8.5 pints of dried calendula from 2016 in my pantry and now I have just sealed up my first jar for 2017 with lots and lots more flowers to come! With all that I looks like I will get this

A few years ago Mr. Rain made me these storage boxes for my empty canning jars out of old pallets. For the past couple of years most of them have sat empty collecting dust as I have been keeping most of

every day, I spend a lot of time excitedly waiting for my chickens to lay their daily eggs! I end up sitting on the back deck, and just enjoying the back yard, property, sunshine, and even more. It's getting

Patrick just happened to meet another youtuber that was stopping by our little town. Mark was kind enough to give him a ride over a part of the town and off to our friend's just outside of town where he

I promised yesterday to get to the fermenting nasturtiums recipe today and I still plan to, but thought I would first show what else is going on here today. One of the many things is dehydrating more

I am going to do my best that every Friday I share with you a handful of Steemians that have inspired me during the week. So because I am "stealing" the idea from @bitcoin-dood. We want to make

Some of you may have seen my post yesterday about my little experiment fermenting nasturtiums. I promised to share the recipe when it was done so here it is. Here is what you will need: Enough Nasturtium

My first steemit rant so please bear with me. The other day I was at the CDC website looking up botulism to make sure I am making my garlic infused oil the safe way, and I am, so all is good. In the process