homesteading
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So, just before New Years, we made another trip to Rolla. This video was taken on December 28th. Luckily, a few days later the water had receded enough that we could get to our cabin to leave the truckload of stuff we had made the trip for in the first place. But the flooding did make it…
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A review of Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet by Catherine Friend Sheepish is a delightful little book of vignettes – some related, some less so – of Catherine Friend’s life on sheep farm with her wife, who is much more euthanistic about the farming lifestyle than Catherine herself…
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I’m sitting in a McDonald’s in Illinois right now. I’m on the way back from my second trip to the Missouri homestead in the last 2 weeks. This will have to be my last one this month. In fact, we are so low on money, we really shouldn’t have done this second trip. It was a…
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12/6/15 the morning 5 acres. A little overgrown. But not too bad, nothing a few goats couldn’t handle. Even in December, when lots of plants are dead and dying, or dormant, its very beautiful. I can’t wait to see it at its peak in the summer when everything is lush and green and beautiful and…
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12/6/15 1am local time Alex doesn’t want to sleep. He’s looking for it anyway. He told me I can go back to sleep, but I can’t when the truck is moving and I know he’s just as exhausted as me. This is gonna SUCK. 12/6/15 2 am local time It’s too damn dark to be…
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The following is excepts from my journal while on the trip down to check out the property in Missouri. I’ve backlogged them to the day they occurred, and with continue to post them in such as way as I get around to type them all up. 12-5-15 8am The journey begins! We got up at…
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So. It’s official. My brother and I own 5 acres in Missouri. I just signed the papers. Its real. I have a homestead to go to. We aren’t going to move out there right away, but this weekend we are going to drive out there to assess it, do some planning, figure out what needs…
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Okay, don’t want to jinx it here, but I **may** be buying a 5 acre wooded property, even with an unfinished cabin on it already, in a few weeks. If this works, it should definitely go through before Yule. If it happens, it won’t be ready to live at full-time for 6 months to a…
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Winter is almost here. My garden’s harvest may be over, but there is still much work to be done before the snows cover the yard. I don’t know how long I will be here, and as much as I want out of the city and into the country, as long as I am here I…
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I recently read Barnyard in Your Backyard: A Beginner’s Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, and Cattle by Gail Demerow (check it out here). I got my relatively-new copy from Amazon just about three weeks ago, and already I’ve succeeded in dog-earing it all to hell. For the last three weeks this book lived…
Temple of Athena the Savior 