The past three weeks on our homestead have been all about fruit trees. When I placed my orders in February, perhaps I was a wee bit overzealous, and I ordered a lot of trees (18 to be exact), fruiting bushes (a modest 6), and raspberries (only 12!) Planting fruit trees is like a ...
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How to Plant Fruit Trees
Taking Stock
Some days, it's a very good idea to take stock. It's easy to think about how much has NOT gotten accomplished, or to stress about the very long list of things-to-do. But when I really look back and realize that just in the past two weeks, we've gone from this...
To this...
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Chick Days
Chickens truly are the gateway animal on a homestead, and ours is no exception. Last week we drove out to a small hatchery, operated in a local family's backyard, kitchen, and garage. Day old chicks peeped and chirped in boxes, and pens of turkeys, hens and game fowl stood in the yard. We got a ...
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Create an Instant Garden with Sheet Mulching
This weekend I took advantage of the gorgeous sunshine and direct-sowed some spring crops - peas, lettuce, spinach, radish, and kale - in the lovely raised beds of our house-sitting home. Thinking ahead to our move in May (ish), I'm also creating a summer garden space on our land with the sheet ...
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