by Millie Copper | May 31, 2014 | Around the Homestead, Life in Wyoming, Two Acre Homestead
Spring took a long time getting here this year! We even had a snow storm on Mother’s Day. Lots of fun things happening on our place. Kiki put the incubator to work to get us some ducks and chickens. Unfortunately, we didn’t have very good hatching and...
by Millie Copper | Apr 2, 2014 | 20 Acre Homestead, Around the Homestead, Life in Wyoming
We moved to our current home almost five years ago. We never intended for this to be our ‘forever home’. We chose the location based strictly on work opportunities. It was always our plan to live here during our working years but to retire to a quiet...
by Millie Copper | Feb 18, 2014 | 20 Acre Homestead, Around the Homestead, Life in Wyoming, Two Acre Homestead
This post was originally shared on my short lived homesteading blog in August of 2013 before I decided to move everything to this one blog— which is more than enough for me to keep up with! Growing all or part of our own animal/livestock feed is important to us...
by Millie Copper | Feb 10, 2014 | 20 Acre Homestead, Around the Homestead, Life in Wyoming, Two Acre Homestead
This post originally appeared on my short lived homesteading blog in the summer of 2013. I’m bringing several of the posts from there over to this blog. Something that we’re experimenting with is animal feed. When we first started raising chickens...
by Millie Copper | Oct 8, 2013 | Around the Homestead, Life in Wyoming
Just a few pictures of the first blizzard of 2013. This was one of the biggest we’ve had since we moved here. School was cancelled and even my husband was told not to go in due to the hazardous driving conditions. Here is a picture that I took early in the...
by Millie Copper | Jan 22, 2014 | 20 Acre Homestead, Around the Homestead, Life in Wyoming, Two Acre Homestead, Working From Home
Be sure to read How We Got Here- Part 1 The summer of 2010 was a pivotal year for us. That year we embarked on raising our own chickens for meat. After watching the movie Food, Inc (that’s an affiliate link) over the winter we knew that we did not want to...