We’ve decided to up our gardening game this season. We’ve increased our gardening space each year, but now we’ve out-grown our original 50’x100′ garden and we need to expand. Since we were expanding anyway, we thought we would try our…
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We can hear coyotes howling at night, so when we started adding animals to our homestead, I knew we were going to need sturdy housing for them all. It wasn’t until we set out trail cameras, though, that I really…
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Blossom is the newest goat on the farm, she’s a 2-year old LaMancha and has possibly been bred, due to kid in either January or February. Most people notice right away, Blossom doesn’t seem to have ears. LaMancha goats are…
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We homestead in an area with monsoon weather. That means we go without rain for months on end, then have torrential rains for a few months, then back to hot and dry. We call it feast or famine. To be…
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It’s good to get to know your neighbors. Most of the time I think of homesteading as a pretty solitary activity, almost all of my daily human interactions are with the members of my family. That suits me well most…
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