We’ve had numerous chick hatchings here on the homestead since we first started keeping chickens 2.5 years ago. It seemed like every time there were complications of one sort or another. Hens would get in the box with the broody hen and lay their eggs there, where we couldn’t get to them. We had snakes…
Lately :: a brief smattering of what’s been happening here on the homestead and our other content from around the web. Apparently I needed to take a few weeks off of blogging. I thought it was just recently that I’d posted about the new cabin, but apparently it was nearly a month ago. I attribute…
It seems like a good week for introductions, what with the solar oven finally getting its own announcement and all. And if that does, then surely this new living space should have its own post, right? The last few weeks have been a flurry of activity on what we are calling the new cabin. Walls…
Last Sunday I began the day as I usually do. I quietly made my way out of bed, trying not to wake the baby beside me, and headed to the stove in the camper to crank out breakfast in the cast-iron skillet. The hungry masses were still asleep as I struck the match and turned…
