A few days ago, a reader asked me this:
"How did you overcome the financial hurdles of homesteading, both starting and continuing? ....Obviously you are happily "living on less," but you also have obvious real expenses."
This is a huge question, one that I certainly cannot fully address in one ...
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Financial Hurdles of Homesteading
At the Harvest Festival
And just like that, fall is here.
The change was instantaneous. One moment the kids were running around barefoot, the temperatures in the high 90's, and in desperation for some coldness, we made a special trip to the store to buy ice for lemonade. We swam in the pond at least twice daily to cool ...
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Out the Front Door
Snapshots and snippets of the beautiful, crazy world right out our front door.
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Chickens free range the property. One of our year-old White Rocks, Broody, hatched a chick last week - our first ...
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The 5 Best Heirloom Melons to Grow this Summer
This winter, when I received seed catalogs in the mail, I immediately turned to the Melon pages. After years of struggling to grow melons in conditions that simply were not suitable - partial sun, cool nights - I was determined to grow a few delicious heirloom melons in my tiny ...
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