Hey everyone! This is our new rabbit, Storm!
Continue reading New Rabbit!Happy New Year Everyone
A very Happy New year from Awaken the Wild Soul!
Continue reading Happy New Year EveryonePost Winter Freeze
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 FreezeMake a Walking Stick from your own Backyard
Avery: This year we got a fantastic harvest of Sour Orange, also known as Seville Orange. The fruit itself tastes far more like a lemon, perhaps just a touch sweeter than a regular lemon. As you might imagine it is best used as a lemonade or used in some kind of desert or made into marmalade.
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Kai: A sneak peek at Jack’s Christmas presents! 😆
Continue reading Do it yourself Parrot ToysDecember Babies
Kai: New baby chicks!
Continue reading December BabiesMy adventure with Box Turtles + Ebook for children
Kai: Once upon a time, I had not seen a turtle in five years.
That all changed this year, when we started seeing turtles (both dead and alive), in our urban neighborhood. We, and several neighbors now have turtles living in our yards – some say they’ve had them for years, but we had not seen one until November of last year, when I was then inspired to do more reptile research.
Invisible 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.