I bet you're wondering how a family of four lives on their homestead while they're building a house, right? I'd be curious too. Where do we sleep? Where do we eat? Where do we poop? Come with me today, on a little adventure - A Day in the Life...
We sleep in a borrowed pop-up tent ...
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Waldorf Homeschool Planning Thoughts
Happy Friday! It is another gorgeous Missouri summer day. We have been so blessed by the weather this summer - days in the high 70's, clear skies. While I do wish for a bit more rain to fill our water catchment barrels, I am so grateful to be living outdoors in comfortable conditions.
In ...
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Out the Front Door
Snapshots of the beautiful, crazy world right out our front door.
If you’d like to share some of your own photos, please leave a link in the comments!
First Dozen! When five out of ten of our spring chicks turned out to be roosters, we went back to the local hatchery for some older chicks, and ...
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Grow Vertically with Garden Trellises
When you have a small garden, as I do right now, one great way to use space efficiently is to think vertically. Garden trellises can be a wonderful tool, allowing plants to climb up, instead of trailing along the ground.
In my garden, I like to trellis not only climbing plants like peas and ...
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Piles
Some days I look around the land, and realize that Brian and I are Pile Managers. I never really thought much about it before we started creating a new homestead from scratch, but the work of building and creating begins with piles.
A pile of gravel leftover from the driveway we put in this ...
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Naturally Fermented Sauerkraut and Pickles
We have been inspired for years by "fermentation revivalist" Sandor Ellix Katz, the author of Wild Fermentation, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, and most recently, The Art of Fermentation. Way back in 2000, my husband came across a small fermentation zine written by Sandor. That zine ...
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