Good morning and welcome to Week 12 of our Local Bite Challenge! This weeks Mini-Challenge is a little different from all of the other weeks because I am inviting you to engage your friends and family in the challenge in a non-scary way (don’t ask my why, but there are a lot of people out there who just do not…
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Well, it’s official, we’re off to our slowest harvest season since we began tracking harvests a few years ago. I blame all of the transition we’ve faced since last fall (yes, I’m really going back that far) for our lack of bounty in the garden. You know, lack of time, lack of planning, barely pushing seeds into soil, setting up…
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Welcome Teri, from Homestead Honey as our next Local Perspective! I have to tell you, the more I get to know Teri, the more I want to be like her when I “grow up”. (No, I’m not joking.) Not only did she pack up and move half way across the country to really fulfill her dream to be a homesteader,…
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Walking around the garden last night, I was reminded of how far we’ve come in just a few short years. From a barren, rock filled, super hot-trash-and-glass-and-juniper-filled 1/8 acre to a living, breathing, mini oasis…sometimes it’s easy to forget how much blood, sweat and tears have gone into our little plot. Walking around the garden last night, though, I…
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After years of dragging the hose back and forth across the yard… After countless hours spent wondering how the heck the chickens could possibly get their water so.darn.dirty day after day… After pining away after simpler solution and fancy fountains… We’ve finally gone and done it! Yep, we purchased a chicken fountain and installed that bad boy last weekend. The…
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Please join me in welcoming Colleen from Five Little Homesteaders as my next Local Perspective! Colleen, a mama to three (soon to be four) and a homesteader after my own heart, is DIYing everything in sight and continually surprising me with her energy and enthusiasm for all things homestead related. I have her dishwasher tabs and sourdough English muffins on…
