We really have a lot of birds. And I am not talking about the wild ones either (though we really have a lot of wild birds, too). I am talking about birds on our homestead. I think they are taking over.
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Food Production & Foraging
This category is dedicated to gardening, foraging, raising your own food, preserving harvests, and all aspects of self-sufficient food production.
Relax and Enjoy the Moment
A couple of weekends ago, we were really getting a bunch of stuff done around the homestead. As a result, I was feeling pretty rough. It doesn’t take much to wear me out and that is usually accompanied by pain, so I try to be careful not to over do it, but sometimes…
Anyhow, we decided to relax on the porch. Jeff likes to put out bird feeders and we both enjoy seeing what birds come to visit them. We even enjoy the “plain” sparrows. All of them are so much fun to watch.
Continue readingBaby Bunnies and Other Homesteading Failures
I have really been having a hard time the last month or so. I have been feeling lousy, for one thing. And for another thing, it seems like everything has been going wrong.
Continue readingCeleste’s Garden Delights Is Delightful Reading
I am so overdue on writing this post. I have been feeling pretty cruddy the last couple of weeks so I am behind on stuff. But, today is the day! This book rocks and I need to tell y’all about it.
So I met Celeste via email when I was setting up interviews on an article I was doing for a client. It took me a while to realize she was the same Celeste Longacre that writes for The Old Farmer’s Almanac. Duh! Just so happens I made the connection the same day her book arrived in the mail. Continue reading
What’s Cooking? Tasting the Seasons
Some times I feel like I am in the kitchen all day long. I’m not complaining. I enjoy cooking, even if I end up achy from being on my feet all day.
Recently, I received a cookbook to review called Tasting the Seasons by Kerry Dunnington. It’s a cookbook designed to help readers make great meals with seasonal foods, including some you may never have thought of. Have you ever tried sweet potato leaves?
Continue readingEggstraordinary Amounts of Eggs
Wow do we have a ton of eggs! The chickens are finally laying again and, even though we lost a few over the winter, we are getting way more than we can eat. See all those eggs in the picture up top? That’s after Jeff took 2 or 3 dozen to work for people.
We also got a couple of coupons from one of our local grocery stores for free eggs. And I can’t turn down free.
Continue readingGarden Harvest
The garden and I have been struggling this year (hence my lack of posts lately). The tomatoes got early blight thanks to the wet, cool June. So much for canning sauce this year. The peppers don’t look great either, but they’re not as bad as the tomatoes.
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I am so frustrated today I almost want to cry. I won’t, but I am thinking about it. Such a waste.
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What Is an Average Chicken Egg?
I hadn’t really given this question much thought before today. Do you know the average weight of a chicken egg? I didn’t, until I looked it up.
Continue readingNew Baby on the Homestead
Wow, what a day. We decided to put clean straw in the birthing stall today because we knew Molly was going to have her baby soon, and we wanted to get ready. Well, we have some amazing timing.
The Practical Homestead 