Spring is a time for growth. It’s also a time for hard work. Sometimes it makes me think back to our lives before homesteading. You see, before we moved to our forever homestead, we lived in Augusta, Georgia. You could always tell Spring was coming when the traffic got insane, the menu prices went up and …
March 14….A day like any other day. Until it wasn’t. That day will forever be the day that we as a family and as a homestead had to decide whether to cower at the challenges ahead or face them head on and choose to grow. March 15th…a new day. Truck no longer available (totaled to …
This life we live here on the farm never ceases to amaze me. Our weekend started by bottling 4 gallons of sweet scuppernong wine. It was quite a great science lesson to teach the children the process of making alcohol. And quite pleasing to know that if things were to get crazy in the world, …
This past week has been a reminder never to take anything for granted. For three years, we have been raising pigs and cows for meat and milk. Our breeding pair of Yorkshire pigs have been our pride and joy. Not only that, they have been a source of love, grief and entertainment. All of that …
Well, our harvest season just keeps getting better. Yesterday Jason had a “funny feeling” that he should go check on Daisy, our dairy cow. So the kids all loaded up in the truck and drove over to the pasture where Daisy found her boyfriend. At first, Jason panicked because Daisy looked like she had lost …
This last year has been a year of growth for us. Our youngest daughter is no longer the baby and our oldest is getting ready to drive. We moved to a new homestead and have had many new challenges managing 21 acres. We started our year off with 3 meat cows, a dairy cow, 17 …
