Wow! Harvest is really kicking in
It seems that suddenly, everything is ready! I was canning corn like mad when Alisha texted me and said she'd like to come over so I could show her how to juice her grapes...
We are now enjoying fresh goat milk again
I sold two of my adult milking does, Luna and Velvet, so we haven't had goat milk on the table. Fawn, a yearling, freshened just before Buffy. We sold Fawn's twin does, as they...
All on the homestead is not about work
This time of the year is the beginning of serious food preservation for me. Unfortunately, a lot of folks get the mistaken idea that I just work, work, work. Well, yes and no. Of...
We have the very best tomatoes this year … ever
We've been filling five-gallon buckets full of tomatoes every couple of days for more than a week now. And canning, and canning… I've put up tomato sauce, pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce, and salsa. And...
Our very first homestead seminar was a huge success!
Although we had been having inches of rain, God smiled on us and we had two days of nice weather for our homesteading seminar. We all met great, like-minded people; learned a lot (including...