I've noticed that more of our neighbors are doing things like getting chickens and growing gardens this year, which is interesting. On one hand it makes me happy, because I think we should all grow our own food if we can, but I also recognize that the reason why we're all doing it is more …
Continue reading Adventures in Prepping: Preparing for the Unprepared
I'm sure a few of us are building up to this rant so I'm just going to get it out of the way. I am so effing sick of the fear mongering coming from the homesteader/prepper community!! It's reached the point that I've basically stopped watching most videos produced by the more popular ones and …
Continue reading Adventures in Homesteading: Stop with the Fear Mongering Already!
My cross country trip was, well, quite a trip. It definitely made me appreciate my little homestead and left me feeling resolved to prepare for a potentially grim future. I still hold out a sliver of hope that things will turn around and we'll see America ACTUALLY thriving again, but I live in reality. It's …
Continue reading Adventures in Homesteading: A Sense of Quiet Urgency
Gardens take patience. A lot of patience. I didn't seem to inherit the patience gene so I'm doing my best to compensate for it by supplementing with tolerance since I can muster that. The apples, carrots, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes and pumpkins are still quite a ways from producing anything edible. Well, except the onion …
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
Empty Nest Homesteading 