Think that the homesteading dream is reserved solely for those who can afford to purchase the perfect piece of land and glorious old farmhouse? I did, too, until I realized there was another option: Renting a Homestead! Up until 2014 I didn’t imagine that renting a homestead could be an option for us. Our conversations (for years) always revolved around…
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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, instead of waxing poetic about our new home and why…
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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. I have practiced countless homesteading skills (canning, milking, seed starting,…
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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 sorrow, anger, displacement that may have (probably) occurred as outsiders…
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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, can’t live with the guilt about wasting the scraps that can’t…
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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 idea this spring. Luckily, I was wrong 🙂 Really, is…
