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April Around the Homestead

April Around the Homestead

The flip flop of spring this year has me feeling ahead and behind at the exact same time. I finally managed to get into the garden and clean it up and prune some bushes but I still need to fertilize my fruit trees and prep the garden for planting. I

March Around the Homestead

March Around the Homestead

March has been a wild time. The weather has been bi-polar and it's got me flip flopping from spring cleaning with the windows open mode to retreating into the depths of my soul doing shadow work mode. I'm honestly not sure how I'm supposed

Is Homesteading for you...Figuring out your Why??

Is Homesteading for you...Figuring out your Why??

Apparently while I have been off on my 7 month social media hiatus, Homesteading has become the new fad. I returned to Instagram a couple weeks ago and have been met with thousands of homesteader reels and accounts. To be honest, I was like yes! Look at all these people

Let’s Chat: Living with the Seasons.

Let’s Chat: Living with the Seasons.

As I sit here and write this article, we are having one of the coldest days this winter. The weird thing is, it’s only -5 degrees Celsius. Usually by this time of year we are well into -10 to -20 c temps. This winter has been messed up and

February Around the Homestead

February Around the Homestead

We haven’t had much of a winter and at first thought I was like “Yes, I’ll take it!” But then I got thinking, what kind of effect will this non existent winter have on everything? Will this years garden season be all wonky like last years? Last spring

Regenerative Homesteading

Regenerative Homesteading

I have allowed social influences to dictate a part of my life that I thought I had a firm hold on. The term Sustainability is in right now. I thought it meant a return to old times. You know, growing our own food, working with our hands, coexisting with nature,

2024 Seed Starting & Planting Schedule

2024 Seed Starting & Planting Schedule