Over the next few weeks I'm dismantling the food room upstairs and moving everything to a spare bedroom in the basement. When I made the decision I knew it was a monumental task I've got ahead of me, but in the end it's a much better space for this. Not only does it stay cooler …
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Well, it's definitely winter here in Idaho... The snow was coming down so gently this morning, it was really magical out there for the brief amount of time I was able to manage being out in the cold... I can't complain though. We've had a really lovely winter so far, overall. I do admit it …
There's usually something to surprise me first thing in the morning. Fresh snow, a visiting hawk or just a really beautiful sunrise when I throw open the curtains to greet the day. This morning's surprise was that Fred and the girls were out before I was, which means I accidentally left their coop open last …
So I crunched some more numbers after going back and looking at the cost of raising the cornish cross meat birds we've been enjoying on a weekly basis. I broke it down based on a dozen of them, since that's about how many a family of four would go through in about three months. We …
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Don't ask how I remembered how to even find let alone work the calculator, but I crunched the numbers a minute ago after reading about the average price of eggs being $3.59 right now. Which is double what they cost a year ago! We haven't bought eggs in forever so when I saw that, I …
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Empty Nest Homesteading 