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Orchard Phase One… Complete!
So I was able to borrow my dads truck on Friday while my mother-in-law watched the kids so I could go pick up some apple and peach trees. I decided to use only trees from Tractor Supply as they are...
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Watering and Wrapping the Orchard
I was able to sneak out to the homestead Friday morning for a few minutes and water and wrap the trees. The reasoning behind wrapping trees is to keep mice and voles from stripping off the bark and...
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Hive Update, Still Active
On the day we took our forest walk I took this short video of the beehive. The bees were really active. I apologize for the fuzziness of the video at the end, I didn’t realize that you have to tap...
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Hive Video, This Time in Focus!
We were out at the homestead today to get the building permit posted (Yeah!!!!!!!!) and while we were there I wanted to take a video of the hive using the focus this time. It was a much cooler and...
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An Apple Planting Video
I really enjoy everything that Pa Mac does over at his website, farmhandscompanion, but his videos are about as good as it gets for homesteading topics. Since I just planted some apple trees, just...
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We Are Getting a Sheep!
I happened to be perusing the local Craigslist farm and garden section the other day when I happened upon an ad for bred ewes. I forwarded the link on to my brother-in-law who happens to be my...
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Book Review – A Guide to Raising Llamas
I have somehow managed to find time to read A Guide to Raising Llamas by Gale Birutta over the last month or so. This is another in the line of Storey’s Guide Books. As with other books in this line...
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Bees and Lack of Updates
I know I have been pretty bad about updating lately. It is mostly because there has been very little to update on. The septic system hasn’t been started yet, and it sounds like it will be next week...
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Orchard and Grass, Second Attempt
So it seems like I am doing everything twice. I have already mentioned that I am on my second attempt at seeding grass, more on that later, but I don’t think I have mentioned that my orchard died this...
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Too Long and So Busy
It has been far too long again. Since my last post, a ton has happened. Our new addition, our youngest son, was baptized. All of our children have been baptized by different people, which had been a...
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Bell Rung
When I was young, we had a bell that hung outside the back sliding door. When it was time to come in for dinner, my mom would ring the bell and we would come running. We could be half the subdivision...
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The Shearer Cometh
I am not what anyone would call an experienced sheep shearer. My experience is limited to trying to save wool and shearing a dead sheep with scissor/shears. Then the debacle of last year and trying...
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Wild Flowers
The area directly behind our house is where the septic tanks are, and therefore the risers with the access covers a directly behind the house. It isn’t that they are TOO much an eyesore, but it would...
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Catching Up, Garden Planting
A lot has been going on here lately. I helped a friend thin out her raspberry patch by digging out a bunch to add to my patch. So my red raspberry patch went from about six plants to around 60. My...
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A Very Eventful Day
Yesterday was busy, but in a good way. First on the agenda was picking up our raw milk. On the way home I noticed someone had put out a seed tray in the garbage along with a worn down snow shovel. I...
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Calves, Chickens, and Gardens, Oh My!
I feel as though I have been earning my sleep lately. Getting up at six to feed the cows before my wife heads to work, all the activities of each day, maybe some exercising after everyone’s in bed,...
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Rabbits, Farm Day, and Too Many Blessings?
Late last week I picked up four rabbits. They are about three months old and are Silver Fox/New Zealand crosses. They should be good meat/pelt rabbits. Consequently we have two male rabbits...
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Stretching Fence
I figured it was finally time to stretch the garden fence and I had a little bit after Mass tonight. Up to this point the fence was just draped over the posts. I got out my home made 2×4 fence clamp...
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After the Rain…. Turkeys
I wrote this post last week, but in the process of waiting to get pictures uploaded and the busy-ness of life I forgot to actually post it. So here it is, late. We got blasted yesterday afternoon and...
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Chipping Away at the Garden
This evening after bringing Homestead Boy #1 home from swimming there were a couple hours that I could possibly get some work done in the garden, if the weather cooperated. I really didn’t have a...
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