Need to reconnect with your husband? It happens to us all. Days at home become routine, and as we plod through our day-to-day, we start to neglect those smaller parts of our relationships until the edges become frayed. It becomes necessary to refresh ourselves, and a great way to do that is to reconnect with…
Whole food with flavor is what flies around here. If it’s sweet, it’s even more popular. If it’s something I can grow or produce on the homestead, I’m golden. That’s why this recipe for sweet potatoes with homemade butter and brown sugar is a go-to recipe we use time and again. It’s easily adjusted for different…
Are you like me, and have an ever-growing list of homestead improvement projects? Try using telephone poles! We have a large pier-and-beam barn on the homestead that once upon a time was used as a corn silo. The layout was difficult to use for anything we needed, and it was obviously not used as a…
Here on the farm, winter is the best time to start some of our larger building projects. It’s also when we focus on indoor projects. When we bought this homestead, to say the house was a mess as an understatement. The kitchen floors from the 1950’s badly needed updating, and newspapers accrued from the 1940’s through present day were…
So you want to be a rockstar. A frugal rockstar, that is. My story: When we moved to our homestead, our financial life was out of control. We were way stressed because we were constantly trying to keep up with the financial output. I adjusted how we were living to cut our spending and increase our control. The out-of-control, impossible-to-keep-up…
Sigh. As a horse breeder, I’m pretty used to hormones and hormonal animals. I’ve developed patience, and learned to accept there are just days when nature gets the best of all of us, and my creatures act in not-so-pretty ways. But these chickens are stressing me out. I introduced some new roosters into my flock…
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