As we set out to expand our gardening space this spring, I assumed that I would continue creating a sheet mulch or lasagna garden, slowing adding layers of organic material to build soil without disturbing its layers. You see, as someone who studied and taught ecology for many years, I know that ...
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To Till or Not to Till A Garden?
Homestead Beekeeping :: Installing a New Beehive
After a fun-filled camping trip in Southern Missouri, we stopped at the regional beekeepers' meeting last Monday night to pick up a 3lb package of bees to start a new hive on our homestead. Although we had kept bees for several years on our Oregon homestead, we ended up selling the hives and most ...
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Off-Grid Living and Starting a Homestead from Scratch
Today I thought I'd dip into the archives to share some of my favorite Homestead Honey posts about starting a homestead from scratch and off-grid living. Many of these posts were written when we were new to Missouri, or had just settled onto our land. What an amazing time - so ripe with new ...
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Homestead Dairy Cow Basics
The addition of animals to our off-grid home is what made our beautiful piece of land feel like a real homestead. Even before we moved onto our land, we raised 10 chicks, and we had a chicken coop set up before we had a house to live in! We keep a variety of animals for the joy and companionship ...
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