Homesteading
All things homesteading: small livestock, homeschooling, gardening, homemaking, and much more.
Raising Food for Winter: Challenges and How Much do We Need?
This post was originally on my short lived homesteading blog. I've updated it with current information after the last gardening season. Gardening is...
Simple Lives Thursday #172
Welcome back to Simple Lives Thursday! Each week I enjoy reading through all of the wonderful tips, ideas and recipes for simple living. If you are...
Preserving Milk
This post was originally shared on my short-lived homesteading blog. Things have changed for us since I originally wrote this post. Did you...
Simple Lives Thursday #171
Welcome back to Simple Lives Thursday! Each week I enjoy reading through all of the wonderful tips, ideas and recipes for simple living. If you are...
Simple Lives Thursday #170
Welcome back to Simple Lives Thursday! Each week I enjoy reading through all of the wonderful tips, ideas and recipes for simple living. If you are...
Simple Lives Thursday #169
Welcome back to Simple Lives Thursday! Each week I enjoy reading through all of the wonderful tips, ideas and recipes for simple living. If you are...
Working From Home: Starting a Home Based Business
Something very exciting but can also be very nerve racking is deciding on the ‘perfect’ position to work from home. This post is the second in a...
Simple Lives Thursday #168
Welcome back to Simple Lives Thursday! Each week I enjoy reading through all of the wonderful tips, ideas and recipes for simple living. If you are...
Winter Garden and Snow Pictures
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...
Working From Home: My Experience
I get a quite a few emails from people wondering how I started working from home. In fact, this is probably the question I get second most often...
Simple Lives Thursday #167
Welcome back to Simple Lives Thursday! Each week I enjoy reading through all of the wonderful tips, ideas and recipes for simple living. If you are...
Tour Our “New” Kitchen!
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...
Menu Plan Week of September 29 and New Additions
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...
End of Summer Health and Wellness
About a year ago I came to the realization that I was having menopause symptoms. I have to admit that the thought had occurred to me prior to...
Simple Lives Thursday # 166
Welcome back to Simple Lives Thursday! Each week I enjoy reading through all of the wonderful tips, ideas and recipes for simple living. If you are...
Simple Lives Thursday #165
Welcome back to Simple Lives Thursday! Each week I enjoy reading through all of the wonderful tips, ideas and recipes for simple living. If you are...
Harvesting Water
This is a post that was on my homesteading blog. Water harvesting is a new concept to me (keep reading to find out why) but something that we are...
Simple Lives Thursday #164
Welcome back to Simple Lives Thursday! Each week I enjoy reading through all of the wonderful tips, ideas and recipes for simple living. If you are...
Simple Lives Thursday #163
Welcome back to Simple Lives Thursday! Each week I enjoy reading through all of the wonderful tips, ideas and recipes for simple living. If you are...
How We Got Here- Part 1
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...
Simple Lives Thursday #162
Welcome back to Simple Lives Thursday! Each week I enjoy reading through all of the wonderful tips, ideas and recipes for simple living. If you are...