Farm to Table - growing your own food
Farm to table: growing our own food to nourish our family.
Growing Breakfast
Growing breakfast… it’s something that we have come to see as normal at our house. Quickly mixing up some eggs, throwing in some cheese,...
Simple Summers
Let’s talk about simple summers…. For homestead families like ours, we cannot just up and leave for a family vacation. We have animals...
Responsibility
Responsibility. It’s a big word with big meaning, and here at our homestead responsibility means life or death. Both of the boys have...
Growing Food - Meat Rabbits
Food security is on everyone’s minds these days, and high quality, organic meat is something that’s really important to us.
Roots
Roots are then hidden part of a plant... the part that sustains and supports it. But they're rarely seen. The same is true for us.
Greenhouse Season
Spending time in the warmth of the greenhouse when it’s cold outside give so much hope for a new season and all that will grow in it.
Autumn Gardening
“Is this not a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonize.” – George Eliot I had a...
Dispatch Day
Raising animals for food is a lot of work. Raising animals in a way that is restorative and regenerative for the land is even more work.
Acquiring New Skills
Processing the sheep's fleece takes knowledge, experience, and skill.