Raising chicks is enjoyable to see something grow. Their first week, they are the cutest, being so fresh with life. In the first week, be aware that the chicks can lose their life easily. The one problem during this time that I have seen through multiple years, whether from buying from a local store or …
What To Do With Baby Chicks Who Have Poop on Butt? Read More »
Wanting to have a flock of chickens for eggs or to raise some meat birds for some homegrown meals starts with raising baby chicks. Sometimes, you can find locally birds that are grown by a few weeks, or ones that people bought chickens, but then realized it is not for them. We bought adult birds …
Tacos are amazing. Substantial beef. Nutritious vegetables. Delicious dairy. All wrapped up in a toasted tortilla. What makes a traditional taco recipe even better is making homegrown venison tacos. The hamburger is ground venison from our deer season. Salsa is homegrown with our own tomatoes, jalapenos, garlic, and onions. Making these few substitutes from store-bought …
I love having an abundance of meat in our freezer. The food is prepped, ready to be thawed, and used. I don’t need to take a trip to the store or local butcher shop to buy the meat for the week. The day before, I brainstorm what I would like to make and eat, and …
I love having an abundance of meat in our freezer. The food is prepped, ready to be thawed, and used. I don’t need to take a trip to the store or local butcher shop to buy the meat for the week. The day before, I brainstorm what I would like to make and eat, and …
At my family’s farm, it originally had a huge orchard. Some of those trees still exist and provide an abundance to fruit every season from the transparent apples for applesauce to the fall September apples for pies, cakes, and just an everyday snack. My husband’s family loves their apples too. Every fall they gather up …
With a greenhouse structurally finished with a new greenhouse table along with some cool hardy snapdragons, it was time for potting up snapdragons and taking them to the greenhouse. This started with testing to see if the snapdragons and other cool hardy plants would survive in the low tunnel in the greenhouse. Another trial was …
Potting Up Snapdragons and Moving to an Unheated Greenhouse Read More »
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. But here’s the crazy thing- I didn’t have spring weather to build this table. It was not only a bit cold, but it was snowing on both days of …
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Last year when planting our strawberries at our current property, I designed the strawberry beds 3’ x 10’ with 3’ wide walkways in-between. I had an idea to plant the strawberries in landscape fabric originally, but the goal was for my husband to rototill between the rows to prevent weeds. This was the first year …
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I absolutely love pheasant breast meat. I’ve never hunted pheasant before, but my husband loves hunting them. Many hunters will hunt with dogs to chase them out of the grasses or to retrieve them from the fields. We don’t have a hunting dog; if we did, as much as my husband would train it, I …