The last couple of weeks have been a bit trying for me. Between work and home, there’s just so much to do and so little time! I’m exhausted all the time. Happy, but truly exhausted. I feel behind on everything. The garden is still being put in, we need to…
Growing food in the high desert can be an incredible challenge, but I am living proof that you can be successful at it! If you follow a few simple methods to help combat the hot, dry, and windy conditions that are the norm in the southwest, you can be almost…
I’m beginning to think that I need to keep better records. Not of the seeds I have or where they’re planned to be in the garden or how much is harvested. No, I’ve gotten pretty good at keeping those records. What I’m not good at tracking is how much time…
7,000 square feet. Seven thousand square feet. That’s the approximate size of the fenced in Market Garden that’s all set up on our brand new homestead and just waiting for us to dig in. That’s 15 times the garden bed square footage we had set up throughout our entire urban…
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 wouldn’t necessarily call it Buyers Remorse, because I am happy with the move we’ve made from the city to a more rural area… And we didn’t buy a new property in our move, we’re renters. So, instead I’ll call it an Incredibly Steep Learning Curve. Over the course of…
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…
One of the funniest things about being a blogger, I think, is how often I get approached by all kinds of people, organizations and businesses asking me to do a variety of things for them, most of the time for free. Some want to write guest posts, others want me to share…