As our fellow homesteaders are aware, the barter system is still alive and well. We have traded many things such as pickles, vegetables and honey for many other things, including the fertilized egg that gave us Mr. Wing (remember him?). But, a new trade came about recently that was a little unconventional. Eggs and maple syrup for salsa. Yes, salsa.
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The term “farm to table” is another one of those terms, in our opinion, that is way over used and frankly, not even used properly. If we were to define our way of homesteading, we would say that the term, “farm to table” applies. On our homestead, we have ducks and chickens. (Our ducks were introduced to you in an
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Every Year when St. Patrick’s Day rolls around everyone thinks of corned beef, but here on the homestead we do it a little different. We make corned venison and it has now become sort of a tradition, which we love. We have no illusion that this is some sort of long lost traditional Irish meal. Much like Rome was not
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If there is one thing that life on the homestead revolves around, it is food. We are always trying to grow more of it and we love to cook it. As hard as we try, there are always foods we enjoy that we can’t grow on the homestead. Every once in a while we treat ourselves to one of these
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Often when things quiet down for a minute on the homestead, we take on a new challenge. This usually happens in late winter, when we have had enough of the snow. We just want to stay by the wood stove drinking coffee all day. A few years back we decided to try our hand at making our own sausage. Because
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two branches homestead 