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 …
Continue reading Adventures in Homesteading: Breaking it Down
It's easy to get lost in time here. I can go days without consciously thinking about the time or date or the day of the week, which is both good and bad. It's good in the sense that I live quite freely, unrestrained by the chains of modernity which demands that you do a certain …
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 …
Continue reading Adventures in Homesteading: We’re Saving On Eggs, What About Meat? 🤔
Something woke the pack up at 3am and despite our best efforts we never could figure out what it was. Whatever it was got their attention over by the chicken coop so we figure it might have been our owl visiting. Hardly any sleep was to be had once we were up at that ungodly …
Okay so technically I haven't started gardening indoors for winter just yet but that's because I haven't received my new AeroGarden Harvest Elite indoor gardening hydroponic system, but I did order it and it is on the way. Of course I'm super excited and I wanted to start a series of posts to document how …
Continue reading Adventures in Gardening: Indoor Gardening in Winter – Part One
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