by Millie Copper | Feb 12, 2015 | 20 Acre Homestead, Around the Homestead, Life in Wyoming, Off Grid, Two Acre Homestead, Working From Home
Hello, Dear Readers, If you are looking for Simple Lives Thursday please go here. Last week I worked in Oregon (the photo above is of Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge). While I was there I came to the realization that I am spread too thin. This...
by Millie Copper | Jun 30, 2014 | Around the Homestead, Life in Wyoming, Two Acre Homestead
June was all about baby poultry. The chickens and ducks that were born in May are growing up fast and any day now will be put in the big house with the full grown birds. Early in June our broody hen had her chicks. She actually hatched all six eggs she was...
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 | Mar 10, 2014 | food thoughts, Life in Wyoming, Meal Plans, Two Acre Homestead
How are you doing with the time change? Springing forward an hour doesn’t seem like it should be a big deal but in some ways it is. We were starting to enjoy daylight coming earlier and doing morning chores in the light. This week Joe is working an earlier shift...
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...