The Farmette Journal

At the farmette, we want to teach how to build the gardens with flowers, vegetables, and beneficial life, the country style backyards filled with homegrown food and animals of multiple purposes, and the home on the farm with real food, real home remedies, and real character.

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The Flower Garden

Discover how to grow a cut flower garden, create beautiful flower beds, pair flowers with vegetables in the garden, and make beautiful bouquets.

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The Flower Garden

How to Grow Snapdragons
from Seed

Snapdragons (Antirrhinum majus) start as one of the tiniest seeds, being sown indoors very early in the season.

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How to Start Feverfew
from Seed

Feverfew seeds develop into stellar filler flowers for bouquets. The clusters of petite, daisy-like flowers form an overall disk shape.

rudbeckia

How to Start
Rudbeckia Seeds

Rudbeckia seeds transform into a beautiful flower for the cutting garden or the flower bed. They’re easy to start indoors . . .

The Homestead

Discover how to grow manageable gardens, orchards, and berry patches, start seeds indoors, raise backyard animals, and make DIY homestead building projects.

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The Homestead

Sunflowers with corn

10 More Gardening Fails

I shared in a previous post about my top five gardening fails and growing from them. I’m going to continue sharing my fails to help you . . . 

Greenhouse table 10'

Building a Greenhouse Table

With the start of spring, a structurally finished greenhouse, and both grow light stands at full capacity, it was time to build a greenhouse a table.

chickens in woods and snow

Caring for Chickens and Ducks

Cold winter weather can be the worse for homesteading animals, not only is it checking on the water multiple times . . .

The Farmhouse

Discover how to make a house into a home, learn homemaking skills, find some easy recipes, discover some home remedies, and gain skills in sewing and crafts.

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The Farmhouse

Pleating Skirt for Wedding Dress

Sewing a Floral Wedding Dress

When I was getting married in 2019, one of my number one goals to accomplish for the wedding was to sew my own floral wedding dress.

fat quarter with quilting tools

Sewing a 9-Patch Quilted Pillow

Sewing simple pillows in the past, they usually require a specific fabric that does not allow the stuffing to exit through the fabric.

vacuum sealed steak

Vacuum Sealing Beef

I love having an abundance of meat in our freezer. The food is prepped, ready to be thawed, and used.

Life on the Farmette

Keep up a connection with our homesteading, gardening, country life adventures. Weekly digs, farm stories, and some of my favorite books for farm life.

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Life on the Farmette

Early September Flowers

With early September flowers, I always think of this week as the first full week of school, and with . . .

What a 5-9 Work Week!

Some weeks we have to prioritize DIY projects that need done. And that was the focus for this week. Measure, cut, and nail.

Posies and Woofers

This week was all about the dogs and flowers- posies and woofers. Practices, challenges, and trainings. Add in the gardener who . . .