Category: Homesteading

Gardening is a great way to get kids to eat their vegetables. With my kids “You grew that!” is likely to get them to try something new. “This has ingredients from your garden” can lead to a no-fuss dinner. Snacks are eaten in the garden all summer long. We are creating good eaters by showing

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This is the place to find all of our most popular chicken keeping posts. Click the headline to go directly to the post you are interested in. We are also on Facebook and Instagram, so feel free to reach out with any questions! Backyard Chickens 101 Farm Fresh Eggs DIY Brooder Easy DIY Chicken Tractor

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With garden season approaching I thought it would be helpful to put the links to all of my recent garden related posts in one spot, just click the heading of the blog post you are interested in. As always, feel free to reach out with questions. You can find me on Facebook and Instagram! My

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We recently made the decision to remove our gas fireplace and replace it with a wood cookstove. While it may seem like an old fashioned choice, it is actually very practical and quite surprising to us that it is so rare today. I wanted to share a little about why we made this decision, what

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Join me for a walk through our garden. We are in zone 4, with a short season and it is easy to get discouraged while seeing all of the gardens of our southern neighbors. I am constantly learning and growing as a gardener, as I am only a few years into this myself, but I

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Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. At no cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase on Amazon.com. All opinions are my own. A garden without weeds sounds too good to be true, right? Well, we are giving it a try this year. We have a 32′

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I recently wrote a post about starting a garden and answered some FAQs about getting started. As the spring season progresses, I’ve gotten more questions about our raised beds, soil, and fencing. We actually started with a little 4’x4′ garden just 4 years ago and have expanded into 2 large gardens over the last few

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I have been excited and humbled by the number of gardening questions I have been receiving! This is the year that many of you have decided to start or return to gardening. I’ve seen a lot of talk in the homesteading community about “Victory Gardens”, gardens that were encouraged during WWI and WWII to supplement

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I have found many great homesteading and farming Instagram and Youtube accounts over the past couple of years. It is exciting to see everyone planting seeds and preparing for summer, but here in Northern Wisconsin it seems like spring is still very far off. We have a couple feet of snow on the ground and

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We are 3 weeks into a pantry challenge, focused on using what we have on hand rather than filling up at the grocery store. It has gone really well and we have exceeded our goals. We are enjoying more home cooked meals and our grocery budget has been tiny this month. We have learned several

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