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Surveying the work

Posted on November 15, 2022 by Laura

I was sending my financial advisor a note today to update him on developments, like renting the farm. As I reread my email for the fourth time… Continue reading →

Posted in Blueberries, Local Eating, Pruning, U-pick | Tagged Blueberries, buying a farm, farm, food, plants, pruning, renovating plants | Leave a comment

Homemade Chicken Feed Research

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Laura

Chicken feed is expensive. I knew it would be, but I underestimated how much a growing chicken can eat. I did research how much they eat and make a budget based on those calculations, but when the first bag of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Chickens, Coop building and cleaning, Homestead Life | Tagged animals, chicken feed, chicken gardens, chickens, feeding chickens, food, Gardening, gardening with animals, growing chicken feed, homestead skills, homesteading, nature, plants | 1 Comment

Book Review: Stand Up and Garden by Mary Moss-Sprague

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Laura

I checked Stand Up and Garden: The no-digging, no-tilling, no-stooping approach to growing vegetables and herbs out of the library at my mom’s suggestion. She thought I might like the technique that this book is about because tomatoes do so well in … Continue reading →

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Pruning Fruit Trees, My First Experience All Alone!

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Laura

Growing up, it was my mom who kept our fruit trees, and a neighbor’s fruit tree pruned. I helped out a few times, but I rarely did more than cut whatever my mother told me to. So when my mother-in-law … Continue reading →

Posted in Homestead Life, Homestead Skills, Pruning | Tagged apple tree, first experiences alone, fruit trees, Gardening, homesteading, nature, plants, pruning, pruning apple trees, pruning cherry trees, pruning fruit trees, trees | 2 Comments

Planning my CSA Garden with “Mother Earth News”

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Laura

I’m working on planning my CSA garden. It’s enormous at 160 feet by 30 feet (49.77 m by 9.15 m). So I didn’t want to plan it all on graph paper. I did that for my Florida garden, and it … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardening, Homestead Life | Tagged animals, buying seeds, farm, food, garden planning, Garden Planning Software, garden plot, Gardening, harvest, heritage seeds, homesteading, Mother Earth News, planning, plants, Vegetable Garden Planner, Vegetable gardening | 3 Comments

Book Review: “Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One’s Own” by Jenna Woginrich

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Laura

I just finished reading Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One’s Own. It was fantastic! It starts with “How to Tell if You’re Infected,” a sort of introduction to the book and explanation for the title.

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged books, farm, farm animals, food, Gardening, home, homesteading, Jenna Woginrich, made from scratch, planning, plants, rented farm | 3 Comments

Gardening in Florida Harvest Pictures

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Laura

I was planning for Friday’s post to be the last about gardening in Florida, but over the weekend, my hubby mysteriously found a bunch of beautiful pictures of our produce after we harvested it. I just had to share.

Posted in Gardening | Tagged blacktail mountain watermelon, carrots, chiogga beets, dragon carrots, farming, food, Gardening, harvest, heritage seeds, homesteading, paris market carrots, plants, produce, rare vegetables, vegetables | 1 Comment

What I learned from gardening in Florida (Part 3: Harvest)

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Laura

In the end, most of our plants got eaten by deer, or got mold (which is nearly impossible to combat organically), or, in the case of our tomatoes, just didn’t do well in the late fall season. We’re still not … Continue reading →

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What I learned from gardening in Florida (Part 2: Planting)

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Laura

When my seeds came in the mail I was excited! And even more so when I discovered a couple of extra packets of seeds as a thank you for buying them from Seed Saver’s Exchange. Next I needed some dirt … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardening | Tagged egg shell, egg shells, farm, food, garden plot, Gardening, gardening in Florida, homesteading, peat pots, planning, plants, rented garden, seed saver, seed saver's exchange | 3 Comments

What I learned from gardening in Florida (Part 1: Seed Saver’s Exchange)

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Laura

One of the original inspirations for this blog was our garden in Florida. In my first post, I said gardening was first up on my list of goals for homesteading. That was true, but about the same time as I … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardening | Tagged buying seeds, farm, food politics, garden plot, Gardening, gardening in Florida, genetic diversity, genetic heritage, homesteading, planning, plants, rented garden, seed saver, seed saver's exchange, seed saving | 5 Comments