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Little Things Challenge Feb 2025
I have been mulling and starting posts and then putting them into drafts, the world is always amazing, beautiful and a little bit tilted. When we can find a flower that lifts our spirit or where we can sit in … Continue reading
Feeding Times effects lambing or Kidding timing
I have noticed that this post is getting a good amount of views and for good reason, when you do your feeding times has been well studied on how it effects when your momma’s will lamb, kid or calf out. … Continue reading
Posted in Life moves on daily
Tagged birthing, farm, Farm Life, farming, Feed for lambing, feeding timing, goats, jugs, kidding, lamb, lambing, sheep, winter lambing
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Frugal Feb 2025
For so many years, I have done a no buy feb, but we faithfully did a no buy Nov and i am honestly not in the mood for it this Feb. We have a few things planned for the month … Continue reading
Posted in At the kitchen table
Tagged beef, Beef bones, Beef Ribs, bone broth, Canned Fruit, Canning, dinner, dried nettle, Eat what you grow, Farm Life, food, Frugal Feb, Frugal living, Fruit muffins, Garden like you mean it, Muffins, nettle, recipe, recipes, Roasting Bones, Tariffs
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Wind Storm Prep
We have a massive winter wind storm coming in, they are saying it could be like the winter wind storms of Christmas 2022, that storm took down a huge number of trees, power outages and drifting snow upwards of 10 … Continue reading
Posted in homestead
Tagged Combination Hedgerows, Combination Wind Breaks, cooking on your woodstove, hedge rows, homestead, nature, Shelterbelts, Shuttle Chef, Snow, Tall hedgerows, Thicket hedgerows, weather, Wind blocks, Wind shelters, Wind storms, Winter, Winter Wind, Winter Winds, woodstove
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Corned Beef Tongue -Waste Not, Want Not
While i used to raise my own beef, I was lucky enough to find someone who raises the most amazing grass fed beef just down the road for me, i gave my calf’s the best life i could but i … Continue reading
Posted in Life moves on daily
Tagged beef, Bulk buy, Corn Beef Hash, Corned Beef Tongue, dinner, food, Frugal, Homemade Corned Beef, homestead, Nose to tail cooking, odd bits, recipe, recipes, support small farmers, Waste not
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Peach Babies and more
Trays and rows of peach babies are all popping up, remember to plant the tail side down when potting them up, i have held them as long as i could and i have them on a 10 on and 14 … Continue reading
Chick Order Time 2025
The last couple years i have been ordering in six ready to lay hens and keeping my bird flock very small indeed. It was strange because for the other 17 years on the farm, i always have a mixed flock … Continue reading
Rice Weevil
I was almost at the end of my one tupperware storage tubs of rice, but its all good, because i had picked up a big bag of white rice at a store, plus i have my US grown red rice, … Continue reading
Posted in dry pantry
Tagged bugs in rice, Dry pantry pests, dry pantry storage, Freezing your grains, Grain Weevils, Pantry pests, rice, Rice Weevils
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Happy New Year
Welcoming in the new year with 97 wee peach sprouted pits! What a delightful way to head into 2025 This fall, i put my top 102 select peach pits out of hundreds of choices from five different Sib C that … Continue reading
Posted in At the kitchen table
Tagged deer hide, Deer Hides, Garden, Handmade Leather, horse, Learn the skills, Peach pits, Peach seeds, photography, winter sunshine, work the skills
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Happy Holidays!
Its been a white Christmas for our farm and household, quiet and lowkey, all the company plans we had for over the ten day holiday window cancelled due to illness but one who came a bit early! It was such … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 