The days have been long and the nights short around here lately. Not sure if it’s all the excitement around moving, the stress around each of our respective jobs or Spring Fever mocking us in all of it’s hot-one-day-frigid-the-next bi-polar-ness or a combination of it all, but man am I exhausted! There is just so much to do and so…
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Are you ready for this? Yep, you’ve just been given a mini-tour of our future home! As of March 28th, we will be renting this beautiful piece of property and beginning the next leg of our homesteading journey! Yes, we did just move last fall. And yes, we are just a little bit crazy! However, this is the good kind…
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Believing that we could produce more, consume less and have a positive impact on our environment, all while living on 1/8 acre in the middle of the city, this quote became the mantra of our small family as we began our journey into a homesteading way of life. We spent 7 years building raised beds, chickens coops, and top bars bee…
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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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1,461 days 1, 055 blog posts 6, 129 comments 500,000 + visitors This little blog of mine was born on Feb 20, 2011 with a post titled Beginnings. Which makes today my official Blogiversary 🙂 It really has been a jam-packed, completely amazing four years! I’ve written a bunch of posts, met countless inspiring people, have been caught by surprise when…
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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…
