It's been a couple weeks and after some much needed R&R I'm back in the blogging saddle. We took a fabulous vacation but there was no...

What's that smell??? I was helping the girls get ready for bed when all of a sudden I could smell it... it's 🦨...and Max is outside 😳...

Summer 2024 is definitely going to be remembered as the year of the horse...or in our case, horses. Dave and I are more than ready to...

Grab your Balls...it's canning season friends! Our first HUGE harvest of green beans has officially been plucked, canned, and frozen! Our...

I'm going to tell you about an adventure...a REAL adventure involving a mom, 3 kids, a pony named Polly, and a good samaritan named...

Ready to hear about how the last 2 weeks have been????? I feel like our pony situation has been all consuming and I've been left both...

Love, loss, and chaos pretty much sums up this last week. Life is full of hard lessons and homesteading can definitely throw some serious...

This was a week. A LONG week. Sometimes no matter how much you prepare and plan, it just doesn't go well. My man Sparky has not gone...

I'm not much of a gambler but I always bet on us. A few months ago I was chatting with Dave at lunch about a homesteading IG reel. The...

This week has FLOWN by. I frequently sit down on Tuesday to write my post and think "what in the world did we even do this week?"...

To say we've had a LOT of drama on the farm this past week would be an understatement. Between disastrous weather, chicken surrogacy gone...

I was tending my vegetable sprouts yesterday and found 3 seeds that had taken root in virtually nothing. They must have been tossed out...

Before we moved to California, I complained a lot about all of Mother Nature's tantrums in Pennsylvania. Time and experience have...

It's been a couple weeks since my last post because I needed some time to recharge and refocus my energy. In truth, learning how to...

There's a lot of wisdom in what Benjamin Franklin said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” There's also an old British...

I can't believe it's already been a week since my last post and it's been hoppin' on the farm! We had a lot more success than struggles...

Stress. Struggles. Success. I promised to be transparent about homesteading and this past week has had some real stress and struggles....

Peep! Peep! It's been a lot more noisy on the farm this week and in the BEST way. We got a special delivery of THIRTY chicks yesterday!...

If you're anything like me, it's easy to succumb to analysis paralysis. Even with a lot of chicken experience, I still spend a tremendous...

It's spring and you know what that means...PEEPS! They're cute and fuzzy and you instantly want to take 20 of them home but I would be...