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The Ranch

Well, we’ve started the blog for our ranch. 🙂 I’ll be moving all of my “homesteading” posts over there. So if you’re interested in the “Views from the farm” and updates on chicken and goats and so forth, you can join us there. 🙂 Eventually I hope to post tutorials on real food eating, cheese …

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Posted byJanuary 20, 2014Posted inDaily Life, Homesteading1 Comment on The Ranch

The Name Game

As I mentioned the other day, Stu and I compiled a list of possible names for our lil operation here. Turns out he is not a big fan of the word “homestead” and I can see the point. But I was a little hesitant to use the word “farm” either since in my mind a …

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Posted byJanuary 18, 2014Posted inHomesteading3 Comments on The Name Game

A View from the Farm

Goats on the prowl! 🙂 If I were a dried up, crunchy leaf, I’d be REALLY scared right now! 😉

Posted byJanuary 17, 2014Posted inHomesteading

A Sunday Date

Last Sunday Stuart and I escaped from the land of being parents by ditching all our kids to go to church without them! 🙂  Stu’s mom was kind enough to hang out with them, so no worries, they weren’t on their own. 😉  At one point during the day Stuart said, “Who would have thought …

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Posted byJanuary 11, 2014January 11, 2014Posted inDaily Life, Homesteading

(Jeopardy Theme)

So Polka’s due date (or one possible one) was the 9th. For some reason the time of her actual breeding wasn’t solid so it could have been the 9th OR maybe the 14th. Hmmm… Well, the 9th has come and gone, and she doesn’t seem to be in any hurry. Though she seems rather large …

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Posted byJanuary 10, 2014January 13, 2014Posted inHomesteading1 Comment on (Jeopardy Theme)

Because it’s important to us

We are buying a whole grass feed Black Angus steer (he’ll look more like steak and such when we pick him up) and a 350lb organic pig… who will also not look like a pig when we pick her up. When Stu and I started listening to an audio book called “Salt, Sugar, Fat: How …

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Posted byJanuary 9, 2014January 10, 2014Posted inHomesteading

A view from the farm

My gift to me from our trip to CAL Feed! Fun fun store!! I could get lost in it for awhile! Mean time now my sensitive fingers will have some good ol leather protection while I work with our animals! 🙂

Posted byJanuary 6, 2014January 6, 2014Posted inHomesteading

The Rest of the Story

My final trip down to the chicken coop on the day when I destroyed the girls favorite place to deposit eggs in secret, I found this! A beautiful sight! Little Red finally gave up the fight and “settled” for the old fashioned good ol’ nesting box! Yay! Tomorrow (although this will be yesterday by the …

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Posted byJanuary 6, 2014January 4, 2014Posted inChickens, Homesteading

She’s nothing if not tenacious

This chicky that I have named “Little Red” is desperate for a place to lay her egg. I’m not sure how long chickens can actually “hold it” but apparently they can for awhile. 😉 Poor little thing. She was trying to get busy on that coal-bucket nest when I discovered it. Apparently once they get …

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Posted byJanuary 5, 2014January 4, 2014Posted inChickens, Homesteading

Brilliant Deduction!

Yesterday I collected a measly 3 eggs from our nesting boxes. I had this nagging thought in my mind that maybe the makeshift nest that the girls were driven to use the other day had become the preferred nest. Oh dear. 🙁 So I tidied up their coop to make it as inviting as possible. …

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Posted byJanuary 4, 2014January 4, 2014Posted inChickens, Homesteading1 Comment on Brilliant Deduction!

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