It’s baby time on the homestead! (No, I’m not pregnant. Although my beautiful sister-in-law is and I’ll be blessed with a niece in July!!!) Three of my hens became broody and we’ve had an abundance of eggs so I just decided to let them brood. After a few weeks I candled the eggs and left...
Category: <span>Farm Animals</span>
A Spring Quiche
Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth. Hosea 6:3 It has been so beautiful here lately as we enjoy spring at its finest. While I’m trying to...
This Week’s Photos
We had surprise new chicks this week. Here’s a picture, as well as my two social media picture uploads this week. Enjoy!
Rooster Stock…A Real Food Elixir
For the last month we’ve had regular rooster crowing on the hour every hour, on the hour, beginning at 11pm. Our community is located in small valley atop a little mountain range and every animal noise is amplified and echoes, so not only were we ultra frustrated with our noisy roosters, but so were our...
We Love Raw Local Honey (Because It’s Healthy)
One of my favorite REAL foods is RAW local honey. My little ones would agree…. Girls, stop eating the honey with your hands…you’re not Poo Bear. I’m not eating it. I’m just tasting it. What would you do if we never had raw honey again? Oh, don’t worry, baby. We’ll always have raw honey to...
Homesteading: Birds of A Feather…
When you get new chicks, you have to keep them caged in the vicinity of the adult chickens for at least 30 days so that they are all friends when you let the chicks run free. Not the case with ducklings (at least mine). And that is why I love my little ducks so much....
Old Cameras
My husband loves shooting photos with old cameras. He comes from a family of photographers and I can boast that my grandmother was a photographer as well…but Brendan is the one who has continued the family hobby. Remember the days when you had to take your film to the film store and wait for your...
Ducklings!
We’ve got a lot of baby action happening on the farm. My favorite baby animals (at least for the moment) are ducklings! The local feed store gets chicks and ducks every spring. This year I grabbed a box to bring home a few… But that turned into 12. We let them play in my parents’...
Our Thanksgiving Turkey- From Farm to Table
***Let me warn you that this video is pretty graphic. The surroundings are beautiful and the video is good, but we are killing and gutting a turkey. I’m bummed that I didn’t get all of the organ meat preparing into the video. Besides not having a clear tutorial on preserving the heart and liver (avoiding...
Real Farm and Turkey Tales
Just a few days after Thanksgiving, hopefully you’re still in a turkey mood because I have a few turkey tales to share with you today. Two days before Thanksgiving, one of our bronze boys was missing. I looked all around (well, almost all around) for this turkey. Seriously, spending months and months of money and...