While the calendar states that we are approaching mid-February, the weather feels a great deal like spring. This reminds me very much of the first winter we had here, which was not much of a winter at all. A persistently hot summer followed in 2012 so we will see what the rest of the year brings….
October/November 2011 February/March 2012 December 2016 January 2017 In my limited experience, a homestead seems to be an ever-changing entity. I suppose if you get to a point of being established, the same crops are planted, the same animals tended, the same structures stand year after year. But we’re still in our homestead’s infancy… or…
This was written last Friday. The wood stove hums away with pots of water heating on top and the youngest children are engaged in a lively game of chase. Stewart has gone to pick up hay and I will split my day between bringing in firewood, answering questions about diagramming sentences, snuggling little Joshie, and…
As is often the case, the lunch discussion yesterday revolved around troubleshooting homestead issues. The day’s topic was egg production, spurred on in part by my reading of Little House in the Ozarks. But also because oddly low egg-production has been an on-going issue around these parts. So we kicked around some ideas for what to…
