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Spring has Sprung at the Homestead!
The big brown truck pulled up the road yesterday (not unusual, it’s winter–why do I want to travel to town when I can order online and UPS will deliver to my porch?!) and my son brings the box in...
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Gardening with Children
A Childs Garden….. It’s that time of year…we all sit down with paper and pencil in hand, and start to ‘map out’ & dream…about this years garden! Why not sit down with our children and do the same?...
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How does your garden grow?
How does your garden grow? For those of us up north, it is gardening prime time! Our season is short, and even shorter if you live up in the mountains like I do. I consider it a blessing to get 3 full...
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Great Homemade Hand (& Body) Scrub
Working outdoors in the garden this time of year leaves me with some pretty dirty, nasty hands by the days end. Having some homemade sugar scrub waiting for me, nestled in a mason jar next to the sink...
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Life at the Homestead…
It’s been a hub of activity around the homestead here lately. We wrapped up another year of homeschooling, are embracing this “summertime-more relaxed- in a different sorta way schedule”, are...
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Pumpkin Puree from Scratch
It’s Fall and that means PUMPKIN! We decided we’d try growing our own Sugar or “Pie” Pumpkins this year and we were blessed! We have a short grow season and I didn’t know how they’d do, suffice to...
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Got Your Garlic in the Ground?
We finally got our Garlic in the ground last week. Finally! Every year we talk about it, but the Fall season is so busy…it all too often gets pushed down the to-do list, until, inevitably it snows...
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Planning for a Season of Blessings
It’s often in the dead, stark, chill of winter (known as January or February…) that my mind wanders, fast forward to Spring. As much as I love snow, winter and downright frigid temperatures; by...
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Make Your Own Butterfly Nectar
Spring is here. Finally! Birds are singing. Grass is getting neon green. Laundry out on the line again. We have a beautiful sunny day, then pouring rain for a few days. Repeat. We saw our first...
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