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Homestead Livestock

Update: Rabbits and Chickens

May 14, 2014May 8, 2014 Travis Toler 0 Comments baby ckicks, chickens, cracked corn, feed, garden, orchard grass, oyster shells, rabbit pellets, Rabbits, rabbits and chickens, timothy hay

We have been tending and caring for both rabbits and chickens this year in the hopes of producing fresh eggs

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Gardening Growing Homestead

Surprise! Ready Or Not Here They Come

May 9, 2014May 9, 2014 Cheryl Blatnik 0 Comments broccoli, cold, cold bed, drop cloth, duct tape, fall, garden, garden bed, gardening, growing, khale, lettuce, plants, plastic, plastic cover, radishes, raised bed, spring, vegetables, winter

Last fall after we moved into our house, we decided that we wanted to do something productive with our back

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Growing Homestead

Planting Fruit Trees

May 5, 2014May 5, 2014 Travis Toler 0 Comments apple tree, apricot tree, arbor, cherry tree, clay, compost, design, digging, edible landscape, food forest, fruit, fruit trees, garden, harvest, hole, manure, nectarine tree, peach tree, perennials, planning, planting, plum tree, sod, soil, top soil, trees

This past weekend we decided the weather was probably optimal to plant trees, so we quickly got busy plotting, evaluating,

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Crafts Homestead

Lighting the Way

April 29, 2014April 30, 2014 Cheryl Blatnik 0 Comments accent, backyard, canning jar, darkness, decorative, garden, gardening, homestead, lid, light, lighting, marbles, mason jar, pv cell, rocks, solar

While relaxing one evening, I decided that I would pick up my tablet and browse Facebook. As I was looking at

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Winter Wields His Power Once Again

April 3, 2014April 21, 2014 Travis Toler 0 Comments garden, Homesteading, permaculture, planning, planting, seeds, snow, winter

Woke up this morning to a blanket of snow over the homestead. In fact it wasn’t just a dusting as

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