We are blessed to live in a community where other folks are attempting to grow their own food and live off-grid. It is a blessing in countless ways, one of them being that we are able to walk to our food sources. I like to call it agrarian grocery shopping. So, like any other grocery…
I’m a big believer in reusing, but I am an even bigger believer in doing things well but inexpensively so that we don’t have to be a slave to money. So when we found a source for free pallets in a nearby town we loaded them up in the trailer countless times and started our…
Besides having babies, nothing shows forth the sovereignty of God to me like watching the process of seed to plant to food. Perhaps it is the sentimental new mama hormones, but it truly is a miraculous thing to see. Months ago we planted a winter garden with kale, parsley, cilantro, onions, peas, and lettuce. The…
photo credit This post was originally published in October, 2009 – a full two years before we arrived here on our land. It seems fitting to republish while we are hurrying to get as many seeds into the ground as we can. Previously in Homesteading: Part 1: Why Homesteading? Part 2: If You Eat it…
