Tag: self sufficiency
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Spring Break on the Homestead
Spring is here! My yard is full of blooms, the trees are blooming, we are planning to get some baby chicks soon, and… it was snowing a couple of days ago. In Kentucky spring can be a wild weather season. It might be 70 degrees tomorrow, but today it feels like winter. We have several […]
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Homestead Kitchen, Cooking on a Snowy Day, Trying New Things
On cold snowy days here on the homestead, I tend to cook a little more than normal. We are home from work and school and not planning to go anywhere. I rather enjoy days when my homesteader husband has the wood burning stove going and I am warming the kitchen by cooking. Here are some […]
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Becoming a Homesteader, My Journey of Growing, Preserving, and Discovering
As humans I think we want immediate results and instant significant progress in whatever we undertake. We have goals or dreams and think they should be accomplished with just a little work or during a short amount of time. I came into 2018 studying my seed catalogs, thinking I’d have a fruitful garden in no […]
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Heritage of Homesteading, Self Sufficiency in my History
I definitely have homesteading in my DNA; let’s be honest most of us do. When I think about my grandparents’ generation or my great grandparents’ generation, most of them gardened, raised some source of meat, and had home food preservation. The generations before us were homesteaders out of necessity. I remember my father telling me […]
Hettie’s Homestead 