Wordless Wednesday: Springtime Chores

I can’t believe it has already been a month since my last post! So much to talk about and yet I don’t want to make this an incredibly long post. So, condensed version right? Haha! Yeah, right, sit back and get comfortable! At the beginning of May, we got the first of our livestock. I didn’t expect to get anything so soon but was pleasantly surprised. I bartered with a lady that lives a few hours north of me and was able to get 3 Angora rabbits, 2 bucks and a doe. I was nervo

A couple of weeks ago I planted several rows of corn at my parents’ house. I wanted to try growing my own popcorn this year and didn’t have a large enough area for both popcorn and the field corn I usually plant, but my motivation was a little deeper than that. My parents like corn, my grandparents liked corn, and I’m sure my great-grandparents did also. I planted corn at my parents’ because I was sure it would make my parents happy (it did), and to honor the generatio

Have you ever said to yourself, “I wish I knew about that earlier?” Or wished there was an easier way to accomplish a task? For those of us living on a homestead, those comments seem to come up often and such was the case with me recently. I maintained our trail to the source of our firewood with a rake and shovel. Our dead standing aspen are at the far end of ou

Snowdrops are an endangered species now, and as for frost… welcome to the winter wonderland. I was on my way to visit winter. Real, authentic winter – so the invite said. I wasn’t quite there yet. Big black slugs glided over the sign that read ‘GalanthoArk – 200m’. It pointed to the huge domed greenhouse nestled in the hollow below. It was the first week of February and I was standing on the crest of a hill, in a t-shirt, armpits wet from the humidity levels that had the slugs in raptures