Homestead Blog Hop #198
---------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop!
Now on to the hop…
Homestead Blog Hop will take place every Wednesday and is for all things homesteading: real food recipes, farm animals, crafts, DIY, how-to’s, gardening, anything from-scratch, natural home/health, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, natural remedies, essential oils, & more! Basically anything related to homesteading.
Meet Your Hosts!
Follow Their Blogs
Kelly – Simple Life Mom (Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | G+ | Instagram)
Bonnie – The Not So Modern Housewife (Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | G+ | Instagram)
Ann – Live the Old Way (Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram)
Natasha – Houseful of Nicholes (Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram)
Liz – The Cape Coop (Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram)
FEATURED POSTS
from the Last Homestead Blog Hop
Each week we take turns choosing three posts to feature. Each post will be shared on all social media platforms by all of the hosts! Here are the features from Last Week’s Hop:
1. Rich and Creamy Chocolate Avocado Mousse from This Happy Mommy
2. When to Plant a Fall Garden from Oak Hill Homestead
3. Budget Friendly Beach Cottage Mud Room from Repurpose and Upcycle
Congrats! Feel free to grab the featured on button for your post.
Just right click and ‘save image as…’
Guidelines for this Get-Together:
- Click on the “Add your Link” Button below and add a great image of your project or recipe. Make sure you link to the page of your family friendly post – not the main page of your blog.
- Link up to three posts each week.
- Try to visit at least a few other blogs at the party. Be sure to leave a comment to let them know you stopped by.
- Link your post back to the Homestead Blog Hop. If the hop isn’t linked to your post then you cannot be featured. All featured posts will be shared on all hosts’ social media channels.
- Please link up posts that you haven’t linked to the hop before. You are welcome to link old posts from your blog.
- By joining the party, you are giving the hosts permission to use one photo from your post with a link back to your site if it is selected as one of next week’s Features.
- This is a family-friendly link up meant to inspire and motivate the homesteader in all of us.
Let the Party Begin
Loading InLinkz ...Join Our Pinterest Board
Follow us on Pinterest and send me a message that you’d like to be added to our Homestead Blog Hop group board. The only rule is to only add posts that you’ve also added here.
Save
Hello Liz! I wrote to you a few days ago about how much I like your soaps. I was concerned about your source of palm oil. As a former environmental science teacher, I learned that palm oil obtained from Africa is harming the ecology of the area. I just wanted you to be aware of this so you can choose sources (you may already do this) that uses sustainable practices. Here is one link to information.
http://www.saynotopalmoil.com/About
Hi Carol! I did respond to your comment on the “about” page, but perhaps you didn’t see it? The palm oil that I use in my soaps is Certified Sustainable Palm Oil, and my supplier is on the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm. They are a group dedicated to environmental, ethical and socially responsible palm oil farming practices. I love when consumers are informed on ingredients, so thank you so much for your questions! ?
Thank you! I am happy your palm oil is from sustainable sources! I am now going to purchase more soaps. I gave almost all the others away as gifts.
Liz, I bought two ducks from tractor supply and really don’t know what kind of ducjs tgey are. Just know tgat they came from Mexico. One is much larger ande darker and the other is lite tan. My question is I’m assuming that the smaller duck is a female because it has laid several eggs all over, but there are two eggs in their house and its been over a month! No little duckings yet?
If the eggs are just in the duck house with no duck sitting on them incubating them all the time they won’t hatch even if they were fertilized. Duck eggs take about 28 days to hatch. One way to tell if you have a male duck, besides coloring, is most male ducks have a “drake curl” – a little curly feather on their tail. Does one of your ducks have that? Have you seen them mating?