homesteading
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My childhood was not exactly a happy one, for reasons I’m not going to go into. But I have one bright spot in the memory of that time, something that I had buried away until a few years ago, because I didn’t think I could get that feeling back. When I was (about) 11 or
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Mountain Men Okay, another thing that led me to homesteading is a reality show (I know, I know! Keep reading, its not what you think!) called Mountain Men, which airs on the History channel. This show follows various mountain men, homesteaders, across the country, the more rugged the better. It follows real-life people, in the
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Good morning, everyone! I started thinking this post would be just one post on some of different things and events in my life that led me to become a homesteader. But as that post got longer and longer, I realized that it would be best if I split it into a series of posts. There
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We’ve started harvesting and drying the lemon balm. You need to make sure that you pick the leaves off the stems if you are going with the paper bag method, since the stems will hold onto moisture more than the leaves. And that will lead to molding eventually. The lemon balm we planted was a
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So, we bought this land in December of 2015, and started to make trips out here right away. We didn’t move here permanently until March 2016. So we have not spent a full year on the property yet. I think it’s important to not make major decisions about the land until we have been through
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So today is the Vertumnalia, the Roman festival of Vertumnus and Pomona. I have not done as much preparation as I would like. Too often I end up writing rituals the day of a festival, and then I have them ready for next year. Procrastination is a problem I need to deal with. Or I
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Blackberries So, the first few weeks of July, the wild blackberries all over our property ripened. For about 2 weeks, almost every other evening in the last hour before sunset I venture out with a gallon jug with the top cut off (homemade basket, handle left on!) to gather my wild-foraged booty. I lived on
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things that have gone wrong on the Homestead Not everything about homesteading is beautiful and fun. Sometimes there are complications, or problems to deal with. Some of these are relatively mild, several are actually amusing stories, and one so far has been pretty scary. I think it’s important to share these stories, in the hopes
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Okay, this post is late. I’ve been been dealing with a lot of stuff, okay? And this post is not including the story of the dog and the snakebite, with I might type of later. This year we’ve been living without some modern conveniences, which many people would consider basic needs. I don’t plan on living
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Well being stuck on the homestead with almost no gas has actually been kind of good for us. We got a lot accomplished. A friend of ours from town gave us a lot of leftover building materials, including plywood, some of which were treated or painted on one side, a few 2 by 4s, a
Temple of Athena the Savior 