This is Marge our newest fixture on the homestead. She is one special pig and life here wouldn’t be the same without her. Marge has changed the way we homestead forever, but that was not the plan when we picked her and her brother and sister up from a local farmer. For the last several years we have raised
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We have all been there. We have big plans for the weekend, and have spent the entire week looking forward to it. Early in the week, we see a few raindrops for Saturday in the forecast, but we are still hopeful. The chance of rain percentage goes from 30 to 90, and by Friday they are calling for 1″ of
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After you have grown all of your own veggies, and after you have mastered raising chickens, your next challenge will almost certainly be beekeeping. Maybe it’s the homesteading magazines that push us toward this very zen pursuit. Maybe it’s the endless internet articles about the bees decline. Or maybe we just love honey. Whatever the reason we as homesteaders are
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Change is never an easy thing. There are so many unknowns, and sometimes changing can feel like giving up. It is important when growing things to experiment and learn. Whether it be moving a crop to a new location, or changing soil additions we are always experimenting on the homestead. Sometimes we try a new crop or eliminate an old
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There is one unavoidable fact on the homestead. You are going to fail. Failure is not something we think about much or even plan for, but it still happens. Three years ago we started beekeeping. We knew that winters were hard here so we built our hives out of 2×4 pine in an effort to give the bees more insulation
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