Farming, Homesteading, Musings
I’ve just come in from my pasture inspection and I just couldn’t help but remember what things were like on the farm one year ago. Baby Indi was just born (yesterday was his birthday) and Baby Michi was born in several inches of snow (today he is one year...
Farm News, Homesteading, Musings, Sustainable Farming
I am so thankful that my children choose to spend their vacations (and their money) moving a family from under piles of cardboard (or if they’re lucky, a couple of ping pong tables) and into a new 12×20 home they build together over a week. I know that...
Animals, Farming, Free Range Chicken, Homesteading
In our 20 years of raising chickens for eggs we have struggled to learn all there is to know about raising the healthiest eggs for our customers. We use only heritage breeds, we feed only organically grown, non soy, non GMO feed, we know what makes them happy and what...
Animals, Homesteading, Sustainable Farming
OK, I know that I am on the verge of sounding like a creepy, bragging grandmother (creepy because we aren’t talking about children here – you know the type…) but our pigs just seem to have a knack for getting into the headlines of this blog. Wednesday morning, just...
Animals, Farm News, Homesteading, Sustainable Farming
For 20 years I have gradually coasted down that slippery slope from homesteading to full time farming and through all those stages I have never had single pig wallowing in my muck. Oh how times have changed! Brayden decided that he would like try his hand at raising...
Farm News, Homesteading, Simple Living
I believe that being too busy to lay in the hammock or to drink my coffee in the garden should be considered as close to sinful as did the Desert Fathers of long ago. They believed that sloth was not so much a condition of laziness but more a failure to see God in...
