One Year Ago: Meet Holly. You’ll have to excuse her terrified expression. You see, she’s six years old and has never been off the Amish farm where she was born until now. She had just had her first trailer ride and this was probably her first photo session. It took one bag of milk replacer…
One Year Ago: ~2012 Meat Chicken Cost Analysis~ I don’t know if it was because it was almost surreal that we were actually going after all this time, or that my first trimester discomforts and exhaustion seeped well into the second trimester or that orchestrating the moving a large family and homestead across the state is…
One Year Ago: ~Fresh Cucumber & Radish Salad~ (All photos are a compilation of our homesteading years in our last home.) After 9 months of waiting, sometimes patiently, sometimes not, since we first set eyes on what was to finally become our new homestead last week, the joy that I expected to accompany our arrival…
Well, in case you haven’t gathered it yet, we made it to our new home It’s been 9 months since I first was looking through real estate listings on the internet and my heart literally jumped into my throat, pounding with excitement when I saw this home. Bill had been looking for a new job…
I’ve been picking my way through The Excellent Woman by Anne Pratt. A chapter here. A chapter there as time allows. It really is an wonderful little 19th century expositional encouragement for women. I highly recommend it. The most recent reading left me feeling convicted about a lazy habit that has been slowly creeping into…
A garden should encourage a healthy population of pollinators. Here are 15 beautiful, easy-care perennials to grow in that encourage pollinators.