Category Archives: Gardening & Homesteading
Chickens vs quail
Kai: Which is for you? Although it’s best to do your own research and get multiple opinions on the subject, our personal experience boils down to what our original plan for these types of birds was, which after a year’s experience, we still find to be the same.
Continue reading Chickens vs quailWhy do we Homestead?
Kai: So why do we homestead?
Continue reading Why do we Homestead?Succulents
Kai: Although not a typical homestead plant, succulents and plants belonging to the aloe and air plant family can be fun and interesting critters to propagate. They make for easy house plants and help to clean the air. Studies even say they can reduce stress when put into a home or work environment.
Continue reading SucculentsNew Rabbit!
Hey everyone! This is our new rabbit, Storm!
Continue reading New Rabbit!Winter Freeze
The last past few days have been challenging. The freeze wiped out most of our garden, we lost all four pigeon chicks that had hatched, we lost most of our feeder fish breeders and plants even perished inside of our greenhouse.
Continue reading Winter FreezeInvisible Helpers
Invisible helpers are everywhere in the soil, air, and water. We actually depend on healthy microbes for our very existence. When you build a natural system for composting raw materials into nutrients for growing food, you have given life back to the garden’s environment by adding living top soil, which ideally should be full of beneficial fungus, bacteria, and other decomposers. These Invisible warriors help keep roots protected from harmful invaders, and add probiotics to the food you grow.
Continue reading Invisible HelpersHomesteading in Winter
What is our homestead like in the Winter?
Winter is Mother Nature’s vacation. Many plants and animals slow down and rest after the productive Spring and long hot Summer.
What is it like to Homestead?
Kai: What is it like to homestead? Well, here’s the truth: Homesteading is admittedly not for the faint of heart – not to say that we aren’t in certain areas of this lifestyle, but I think it’s important to come clean about it. It can be a lot of work, requiring spur of the moment changes, working in the bad weather, learning basic survival skills and much more.
Continue reading What is it like to Homestead?What does that mean… Permaculture?
Kai: So what is permaculture all about?
Continue reading What does that mean… Permaculture?