Homesteading
Confessions
November is almost over, and while we have enjoyed the down time from therapy we still have barely scratched the surface of all the things that need doing around here. That said we have been busy. I…
Boy meets Zucchini
The most proliferous plant in our garden this summer had to be the zucchini plant with the tomato plant as a close second. I do not understand the super powers of the zucchini. It can hide in…
August 2012 Garden update
Once more, I am late getting our garden post up. It has been a busy month, yet again. This definitely has been a season full of learning. Well I guess with everything there is always room to…
July Garden
I am a little embarrassed that we are this far along in August and I am only now posting my end of July garden pictures. Between gardening, hosting guests, playing with the children, housework etc. my poor blog has…
Our June Garden
I know I have been missing from around here. I find it hard to believe that Father’s Day was my last post. We have been very busy and hopefully I’ll soon have some new posts up describing…
Seeing Our Worth and the Worth of a Hen
This past Sunday I had an opportunity to share at church something that God had been showing me and I thought I would share it here too.. Almost a year ago, Dave, the children and I went to pick…
Chicks and how to sex them
I tried to think of a nicer way of titling this but that is basically it. We have launched ourselves into the world of hatching chicks. To begin with we were very new to this, we had…
May’s Garden (weeks 1, 2, & 3)
If anyone showed up here yesterday looking for ‘Field Trip Friday & Other Homeschool Fun,’ oops I messed up. It has been so busy around here I have not had a chance to post anything. We have…
The Orchard, the Vineyard,and the Berries…
Traditionally, when someone would use the word orchard they would be describing a piece of land set apart for the use of fruit trees. Today people often think of apples when they hear the word orchard. Here…
Spring on Our Little Homestead
Has spring sprung on our little Homestead? This year we were teased with unseasonably warm weather in March, and here we sit almost hours from May desperate for spring in all its glory. I think we can…
Apples and my little guys
Our family loves apples, if you were to ask our children their favourite fruits most would probably reply some type of berry. However, the go to fruit around here are apples. Currently we have 7 apple…
Sap is running… and some reflections!
This winter has been anything but normal. It was slow to start and then we got a lot of snow and now it is warm enough to put the buckets up and we are still in February.…
