I have meant to do an update on my experiment in indoor hydroponic gardening but I've been busy getting distracted by things like shoveling more snow and de-icing kennel gates. Argh. Anyway, just a quick note to say it's actually going really well and I've been harvesting the heck out of the dill and the …
Continue reading Adventures in Indoor Gardening: AeroGarden Day 48
I try to do something 'homesteady' every day, and today is no different. I began the morning with some fresh eggs which are thankfully back again after the girls went into hibernation during that deep arctic cold blast last week. I had just used up my frozen stock and I needed eggs for a few …
Continue reading Adventures in Homesteading: Little Things Daily
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? 🤔
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 …
Continue reading Adventures in Chicken Farming: So I Did Some Math
I am not only "allergic" to the modern world, I truly dislike it. The worst ugliness seen in nature is still spectacularly beautiful compared to what man produces in captivity. What I mean by that is I'd rather watch a lightning storm cause a wildfire to devour 100 year old giant redwood trees or see …
Empty Nest Homesteading 