Homesteading

The garden is flourishing, the bees are piling up the honey, and an assortment of young critters is trying to make our homestead their home.

Just when it transitioned from cold weather to warm, the rains started, drowning out many of our homesteading chores.

Updates on the economy, precious metals pricing, our beehives, our solar power system, and the use of drones for prepping.

As we leave winter behind, we start preparing for the next one, laying in a good stock of firewood to dry and season over the summer.

Losing chickens is a part of homestead life, but you don't have to make it easy on the predators. Take steps to keep your egg-supply safe.

It's the time of year to start your small gas-powered engines, change the oil, grease the moving parts, and make sure your equipment is ready.

The early spring has meant a surge an egg sales and very active beehives. Now we just have to hope there isn't a sudden hard freeze.

Suddenly, spring was here. The bees were flying, the robins were hunting worms, and the bats were catching insects. The homestead is getting busy again.

We take advantage of the warmest day yet in February to catch up on homestead chores. It's no fun, but needs to be don

Despite bone-chilling cold, dangerous driveways and roads, and days of snow, we successfully survived the blast of winter weather.