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First eggs!

Posted: Thursday, September 4th, 2008 @ 4:14 pm in DYI/Homesteading, Homelife, Animals | 3 Comments »

Look what we found in the chicken pen this afternoon…

Our first eggs!!
Current cost about $50.00 each. (chicks, feed, equipment, fencing and such).
 

Planting that garden

Posted: Sunday, August 24th, 2008 @ 5:42 pm in DYI/Homesteading, Gardening | 5 Comments »

Anna wrote that square foot gardening isn’t working for her and she is going back to regular rows. Instead of clogging up her comments I decided to post my thoughts here. I had posted some of my own research earlier. Andrea commented that her family loved potatoes and would up the amount. I agree.  Please feel free […]

DYI or DIY

Posted: Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 @ 1:07 pm in DYI/Homesteading, Humor | 2 Comments »

I just noticed the sidebar is spelled wrong.
Look at the left one, down at DYI/Homesteading. It should read DIY. 
Perhaps it isn’t really wrong:
DIY - Do It Yourself
DYI - Do Yourself In
Pretty much the same thing.

Garden Planning

Posted: Thursday, August 21st, 2008 @ 10:05 pm in DYI/Homesteading, Gardening | 2 Comments »

Right now the family garden is a rather small backyard garden. I have been reading and studying (and trying to impliment) about how to produce good amounts in a small space. It seemed providential to find Path to Freedom and their urban homestead set-up. Good ideas to think about and try.
Now that we have more space I have […]

Moving right along…

Posted: Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 @ 8:00 pm in DYI/Homesteading, Homelife, Explainations | No Comments »

Well, it seems we will be moving in the not so distance future. DH has been wanting to move closer to his father - an hour+ drive is just too much, esp. since his mother has passed on.
Photo #1 This is the front of the house - The ramp will be coming off - after […]

A Project List

Posted: Monday, July 28th, 2008 @ 10:52 pm in DYI/Homesteading | 1 Comment »

An online friend Anna asked awhile back what we would like to learn more about. Around here that is a pretty big question the answer depending on what part of the library you are standing. Religion, nature, cooking, homesteading, art, music and all so interesting. But she might like a better answer and knowing how much fun people’s lists are […]

On Queen Anne’s Lace

Posted: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 @ 9:32 am in DYI/Homesteading, Gardening, Nature Study | 1 Comment »

An online friend is having some fun with Queen Anne’s Lace using its royal perogative to grow where it isn’t wanted. Hmmm…roll through the mental rollodex and….
Queen Anne is nature study (pictures), as the butterflies prefer to lay their eggs leaves of plants in the parsley family (Apiaceae) including Queen Anne’s Lace, carrot, celery and dill.
Queen […]

Latest Free Finds

Posted: Sunday, July 20th, 2008 @ 6:57 pm in DYI/Homesteading, Gardening, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Remember those old Organic Gardening magazines & books? or the old Mother Earth News? The ones back in the day when the focus was growing your own food as healthily and cheaply as possible. The days when people were capable of using what was on hand to get where they needed to go. NOT the […]

Musings on farm stuff

Posted: Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 @ 11:51 pm in Oddments, DYI/Homesteading, Explainations | No Comments »

Ever have a day (or late night) when you mind just wanders around a problem and answers to questions you never knew you had appear? Well this is what a wandering mind on the internet can find. I have no idea how it all started either, but it was reasonable at the time.
I think it started […]

Other uses

Posted: Monday, June 16th, 2008 @ 7:24 pm in DYI/Homesteading | No Comments »

A site that I read regularly asked for ideas on second uses for items already around the house. My contribution:
We purchased a second group of chickens (the polish crested, turkin, and butter cream), thinking the two groups were not that far apart in size and could easily be made one happy family…ha! Once I had […]