Do you remember when we planted sweet potatoes in the chicken field at the beginning of June? Three rows of sweet potatoes in a few different varieties were planted and mulched. Around that same time we planted four rows of beans, including one row of black eyed peas. Shortly after that, Stewart planted a few…
The garlic has been safely dried and tucked away for quite some time now, but I just came across some of these pictures from the garlic harvest. They remind me of something that many people seem to miss, when they see things from afar. All too often people comment on how much Annabelle looks like…
Hi. I took this photo so long ago that this just-opening sunflower is now drooping down from the weight of its giant, yellow head. You haven’t even heard about the 40-some odd chicks and chickens we added to the flock… and the egg hunts that ensued. The nightly sigh of relief we all breathe as…
I cringed when I read how the Wannabe Homesteader described us in a recent guest post: I know of some homesteaders, I mean real homesteaders, who live a life completely off-grid and utterly detached from industrialized society. They live a simple, Christian existence surrounded by like-minded people and are dependent on no one except the…
