Tag: Homesteading

Our refrigerator died during the hottest week of the year. and took more than a week to repair. Here's how we handled it.

Our garden is producing well, maybe even over-producing. Anyone have a good recipe that uses green beans and zucchini?

This is the peak of production on the homestead. In a survival situation, this is when we would be packing on pounds to get us through the winter.

We have gone from harvesting 12 or 13 eggs per day in the Spring of 2022 to 7 in the summer of 2023, but that's an improvement over last month.

I have plenty of bees, but little honey. We are all waiting for something to bloom besides wildflowers and clover so the honey flow can start.

More than half of our young Black Star chickens escaped over night, and we don't know why or if they will do it again.

The honey season is off to a slow start thanks to a cool and wet spring, but things are beginning to look up on the homestead.

Despite rain and sudden cold snaps, May weather is some of the best we will see on the homestead for working outside.

Our chicks are devouring their food, gulping their water, and doubling in size after the first week. In another 19 weeks, they'll be laying eggs.

The bees are keeping my buzzing as I real with queenless hives, new splits, a lack of nectar and strange weather patterns.