{Out the Front Door: An occasional series featuring snapshots and snippets of homestead life, right out our front door.} This spring has felt particularly full, as we've finally hit our stride as small business owners, while simultaneously increasing the food growing, making, and storing capacity on our homestead. Blogging has fallen a bit to the wayside, and micro-blogging has taken its place, primarily on Instagram. (If you're on Instagram, I'd love to connect! I'm @homestead_honey). But there are SO many projects happening that I've wanted to share! Such as this project: Fencing and mulching our fruit trees. We love free ranging our chickens, but hate that they kick up the mulch around … [Read more...]
Fiercely D.I.Y Guide to Seasonal Living
Living in Oregon for 13 years, I almost forgot what four seasons really felt like. True, we had a colder, rainier winter, and certainly the dry heat of summer was a marked change, but somehow the seasons seemed to melt and blend into one another, and not entirely aligned with the calendar. On the other hand, our time in Missouri has truly been a lesson in seasonality. Always one to celebrate the turn of the seasons, I have fresh appreciation for the cycle of the seasons after living outdoors for an entire summer and essentially living indoors for the winter. Summer on our homestead was all about the pond: swimming in the pond several times a day, retrieving water from the pond to … [Read more...]