It’s no secret that we’ve been trying to establish perennial food sources since we started out three years ago. Fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, herbs, and onions have all been planted and we continue to add more as resources allow. So when I learned that mushrooms could be a part of a perennial food…
Last week was backhoe week here on the homestead and in the community. It was a busy time and long days for Stewart, but it was a great blessing to watch more water catchment and root cellar action happening in order to further our sustainability. There was much watching by little boys on our homestead…
On a warm August day painted with the picture-perfect blue sky, the children all congregated behind the cabin. The eldest, nearly eight now, assisted in washing laundry while he encouraged his younger brother, six, in the garden fence he was putting up. His little sister squatted down in the mud nearby, the way toddlers seem…
I’ve now read more books than I can count on the topics of gardening, permaculture, orchardry err fruit-growing (see, no clue), and general homesteading. And I still fly by the seat of my pants when it comes to just about everything around here. I bounce around garden areas, watering, fertigating, thinning, side-dressing with comfrey, and…
