I'm going through photos today, trying to whittle down my vast collection of mostly bad shots, and I realized yet again just why we love this lifestyle! In the last few years we've grown/raised some of the best food I've ever eaten in my life. The Muscovy ducks are definitely coming back this spring. They …
Continue reading Adventures in Homesteading: It’s More Than Just Food
I don't know if it's common where you live, but over here in SE Idaho it's rare to go a week without a solar panel salesman ignoring your many "NO SOLICITING" signs to come knocking at the door. Seriously, I've had them come by during a snow storm and we both laughed about their tenacity …
I realize that we live a very different lifestyle than most people. Not just the homesteading thing, either. Most people don't live next to Yellowstone park with a pack of wolves, I mean huskies, or raise their own food (which they then share with the wolves, er, huskies). And admittedly we do a lot of …
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
I see people mention the price of eggs in comments around the internet but I honestly haven't looked at the price of eggs in a very long time. I also hardly ever run out of eggs. In fact, I'm usually trying to think of things to cook or bake to use some up because I …
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