How may things are needlessly judged as weeds? What makes some things less worthy to be considered as the indicators of a need? Isn’t it the weeds that show us where we need to plant more of what we do desire? But our culture is expert at sussing out ‘weeds.’ The trouble is that sometimes […]
Harvest season has been a long haul this year. I have had a hard time keeping up with everything, from the influx of fresh food, to the realizations that we need to move on to bigger and better things. The crux of our business is from the two greenhouses Rob and a friend took on […]
This past week when visiting friends, we were offered some of the grapes that were growing as a carport. What a beautiful gift to be given! I took a bag full. They also offered us some apples from a tree that had split and fallen down. I’m amidst so much processing of food at the […]
At this time of year, harvest is abundant! Processing food for the winter months is all consuming and the incoming volume of produce seems relentless. We have been working our way through bushels of tomatoes, peppers, apples and cucumbers that have blessed our counters. It’s hard to see that volume of perishable food as a […]
At our party last weekend, we had intended to do grafting and mushroom inoculating, but didn’t get to the latter. Rob has been working on evenings this week to complete the task, which is not difficult, just time consuming. Amassing the items required for the job was the most tedious part. We have been collecting […]
This morning we had the extreme pleasure of going to pick up our chickens! We stopped en route to pick up some wood shavings and peat moss for bedding. We were told by another homesteader friend about including peat in the bedding. There are a few benefits. The chickens do the work of mixing it […]
We lost a great deal of our orchard blossoms early in the season during a frost. It was a disappointing day. We tried hard to save them, throwing a sheet over each tree, which knocked off some of the blooms in the wind before we decided to remove them. After the frost hit, Rob got […]
A friend of mine recently put out a call for someone to take a few of her beloved chickens. She ordered some Swedish Flower eggs in the Spring, and didn’t expect almost all of them to hatch! For this reason, we will be getting three hens and a rooster! We are so excited for their […]
I sat down at my machine intending to finish off a blog post I started last week. I was about two thirds of the way through it, when I heard raindrops begin to hit my window and a rumble of thunder rolled though the room. My mood dropped. After putting the children to bed, I […]
We spent the day cleaning our barn out yesterday. It felt so good to get things moved out of our space that we no longer have use for. It is always an interesting balance to strike between ‘making no waste’ and becoming hoarders! We have taken the stance that if we have a project in […]
