You guys, I cannot even begin to explain to you just how excited I am about our new house and the amazing property it sits on! It almost seems unreal that everything we’ve been working for and planning for and dreaming about has manifested in such a wonderful rental! So,…
I have a bookshelf full of homesteading books, resources, information, and magazines on all kinds of homesteading topics. I have dreamed about the day when we would live on enough acreage that we could easily keep livestock, grow an expansive garden, and maybe even make a bit of income from our excesses.…
As we pack up this old Hacienda we’ve called home for the past seven months, I find it hard to not imagine all of the stories that have taken place within these walls and on this property. As a piece of property surrounded by Native lands, one might imagine the…
Vermicompost is the product or process of composting using various worms, usually red wigglers, white worms, and other earthworms to create a heterogeneous mixture of decomposing vegetable or food waste, bedding materials, and vermicast. What do you do when you can’t have a compost pile at your rental and, equally,…
For a short while this winter I thought that, for the first time in years, we wouldn’t add any new chicks to the flock this year. With all of the transitions and upheaval, I guess I was thinking that adding some Newbies to the mix might not be the best…
There’s just something about watching the sky day after day and finding a rhythm in nature through intentional observation. I have fantasies about tracking the weather patterns on our Eventual Farm…learning the ebb and flow of nature in our own personal micro-climate…how each day of sunshine, each drop of rain,…
Alright, so I promised I’d show you the whole house…so you’ve now, officially, seen the whole house 😉 OK, OK…I know this post only shows snippets of the bathrooms and Laundry Room, but who really need to see toilets, washer, dryers, and our misc. toiletries? Exactly! So, beyond their utilitarian…
As we approach the closing of yet another year, I debated on whether or not I should get all deep and introspective on you, my dear readers…you know, go into all of the changes we’ve seen over the past year…talk about the challenges we faced…the goals that were crossed off…