It has been such a weird year. We should be well into sweater and warm boot season and past our harvest time but yesterday we were still out there digging up more potatoes and gathering ears of corn. We've been watching the forecast and letting the corn go as long as possible, which has paid …
Things are still quite busy here at our little homestead. We picked the last of the onions and carrots yesterday and began cleanup of those beds (whew!). Today and tomorrow we'll tackle the potatoes and corn hopefully. Not only do we have the corn patch in the back of the property but someone (a bird? …
After an unmercifully hot summer, fall has finally arrived! Hooray!! It is such a relief and also a bit surprising because we should be having our first frost right about now yet so far there is no sign of it. Sure, the mornings are chilly but the daytime highs are still in the 70s and …
Continue reading Adventures in Gardening: A Warm Welcome & A Fond Farewell
I know it seems like such a basic thing to most homesteader/prepper types, but I haven't identified as either of these for very long so this business of dehydrating and storing food I've grown is a new adventure for me! It was rainy yesterday (melting all our snow!) and there just wasn't much to do …
Continue reading Adventures in Prepping: Dehydrating Potatoes
I had two choices when it came to what to do with those five apples we harvested. You know, the ones the thieving squirrels so graciously left us? 🤨 Yeah, those ones. We could have just eaten them whole, which would have been the healthier choice, but gosh darn it, we planted that tree with …
Empty Nest Homesteading 