Derksen Shed-to-home

Just wanting to say "hello"

We built some simple raised garden beds with our wood.

New baby chicks hatched! :)

Our chickens decided they had enough of being in the coop and let themselves out!

We had a truck load of wood delivered to our homestead.

I went to the library on Friday. I have been interested in nutrition since 2007 and have been eating a whole foods based diet since that time. I always get excited when I find new cookbooks that utilize

A few weeks ago a friend of a friend called me. I had spoken with him a couple times in the past when he needed advice for his goats, but it had been a couple of years since I had heard from him. Anyway,

Since Steemit launched the separate Steemit Wallet page I cannot "accept" my curation/author rewards. It shows that I should have them, but it isn't showing me how to add them to my wallet. Any

I started my herbalism journey almost a decade ago when I enrolled in a Family Herbalist program, which I completed a couple years later. I used what I learned in that program to start my salve business.

As I wrote yesterday, I recently lost my mother to cancer. I lost my father to cancer back in 2007 after a 15 year battle and my maternal grandfather in 2000 after a 3 month battle. Cancer is a common

It has been nearly two months since my mom passed away and it still feels surreal. Her and my step dad were in town visiting and they took us to Olive Garden for dinner on December 31st where we said our

It is getting pretty rare to have the opportunity to meet a Holocaust survivor so when I heard there was one speaking locally we made plans to attend. We started the day attending an art exhibit done by

We have decided to be more "official" with our next farm and registered the name Five Talents Farm as a LLC. The website isn't set up, but we did purchase it. We are considering rebranding my

As I have wrote about in the past we have two Percheron Mares we plan to farm with. They both foaled this spring and we are now breeding them again. The Amish suggested we breed them back nine days after

We have two beautiful Great Pyrenees dogs, Beaux and Princess, that guard our farm animals. We had them separated as she had a litger last November and we wanted to wait a year between litters, but they

Earlier this year before we were hit by the mold and chaos transpired I was posting about waiting for our Percheron Mares to foal. Then I left you all hanging. Sorry about that! So, here is a much belated

I'm nearly six weeks late in posting a birth announcement! It'll be awhile before I have the time to type out her birth story (for those of you who enjoy that type of thing), but I figured I would give

You may remember this post about our fixer upper house. We bought this farm in March 2016 and gutted it. We spent about 16 months working on it and got it about 80% done. We figured the remaining projects

We've spent much of our day in the barn brushing our Percheron mare who is due any time. She looks like she's getting close, but the only definite way to know if a baby is coming is when you see the baby