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Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! I am so ready for spring to get here – if only the weather would cooperate! It’s been so chilly here lately. I’ve been slowly starting to get my garden ready. It’s hard to stay motivated when it’s 35 degrees outside. Hopefully, next week will warm up and I …
Welcome to the Homestead Blog 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 Natasha – Houseful …
Happy Wednesday! Our maple syrup season is well on its way and we’ve got several bottles of syrup put up so far. But this past weekend we had quite the setback. I had been boiling down about 18 gallons of sap all day and got down to the final finishing steps. I was in the …
Happy Wednesday! It’s been a quiet and very chilly week on the farm. I was excited to get our first batch of maple syrup boiling this past weekend, there is nothing quite like fresh maple syrup! We are also preparing for our first goat kids to be born on the farm. Momma goat is due …
You’ve built strong fences and a sturdy coop to address your chicken’s physical security, but have you taken the steps to implement flock biosecurity for disease prevention? This is an important step for keeping your chickens healthy. What is biosecurity? Chickens don’t just need protection from physical threats, there are plenty of invisible threats in …
I’m sorry for being late on this week’s hop! We have had quite a rollercoaster week. We got a big snow storm dumping several inches of snow on Tuesday. We also got our maple tree taps put in to gear up for maple syrup season. If you haven’t tapped trees before, it’s a really fun …
Alpacas are undeniably cute and they are not particularly difficult to care for. But do alpacas make good pets? Are alpacas good pets? I’m going to disappoint a lot of people, but alpacas are not really good pets. At least not in the traditional sense. It mostly depends on what your expectations of a “pet” …