Spring Starts in February
It is actually kind of ridiculous how many times I’ve sat down to write here this week. I began working on another piece on Five Years a Homesteader but sometimes I don’t trust myself to publish even when the words flow. Thankfully, Stewart is Editor-in-Chief here, reading and giving honest feedback on everything I publish……
We started these seeds a few weeks ago thinking that by now they would have made it into the gardens. But there’s not enough water to warrant a planting. The ponds are starting to go dry. The house hole is dry. The gardens are dry. Last week we mixed that wood ash into the spot…
Read all about our homesteading story and the projects that helped us out along the way in our new book, The Doable Off-Grid Homestead. If you’ve read it, you can now leave a review. It has been quite some time since the creeks ran and the ponds filled and the tanks overflowed, but last week all…
I’m sure at one point we were talking about other things related to food and babies and agrarianism and sustainability. And I’m sure it was all very pertinent at the time. But right now I think there’s nothing more exciting going on than beans. I’m not canning jar after jar and we’re not bringing in…
Last year I honestly thought we might never grow summer squash again. Funny what a difference just 12 months can make. Fickle I am and boy does gardening show it. After reading all about how squash bugs were hard to get rid of, how they come back year after year no matter what, and how…
The first half of our week was a bit more of a challenge than the second half, but we are learning daily what it means to throw off all previous expectations and learn from the process. Day Five: We get up early and I crank up the propane stove for what will be our first…
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