by Millie Copper | Nov 13, 2013 | 20 Acre Homestead, Around the Homestead, Life in Wyoming, Two Acre Homestead
This post was originally on my short lived homesteading blog. I’ve updated it with current information after the last gardening season. Gardening is still a challenge but each year gets a little bit better. This post does contain affiliate links. Thank you for...
by Millie Copper | Nov 6, 2013 | Around the Homestead, Preserving Food, Traditional Foods
This post was originally shared on my short-lived homesteading blog. Things have changed for us since I originally wrote this post. Did you know that it is believed that cheese making may have started when dairying started? Milk was put in animal bags (usually...
by Millie Copper | Oct 1, 2013 | Around the Homestead, Life in Wyoming
Over this last year we’ve been working on re-doing our little kitchen. When we bought this house ( a used double wide that we got for cheap) it was all rather dated looking. The walls were almost all done in lovely brown paneling and the entire house (except for...
by Millie Copper | Sep 30, 2013 | Around the Homestead, Meal Plans
We have had an exciting couple of days. Two of our goats had babies! You might remember that at the end of June we added seven Dwarf Nigerian goats to our little place. We didn’t realize that any of the goats were pregnant. About a month ago we noticed that a...
by Millie Copper | Sep 4, 2013 | Around the Homestead, Life in Wyoming, Starting Out
When I first started blogging, at a simple family style blog, we were living in a 23 foot camp trailer in Northern California. The summer before that we had purchased two acres of bare land in Wyoming. Thinking it would take some time for our Oregon coast home to sell...
by Millie Copper | Jul 2, 2013 | Around the Homestead
Last Tuesday we added seven Nigerian Dwarf goats to our little place. Adding goats was something that Joe and I had been discussing for over three years. Two years ago we were days away from welcoming two does when we ran into some issues, not with the does we were...