We had had our turkeys Big Man and Little Girl (previously known as Christmas and Thanksgiving) for two months, give or take when we began talking it over some. Should we take on the challenge of raising even more protein on our property? The turkeys were not too difficult yet, feed and water twice a day, let them follow us around the yard, shoo them away from the growing garlic
August 19 – 24: 20% off Elderberry Elixir and Elderberry Kits. (All sizes/all forms). First time Customer Discount: First-time customers get a 10% discount on their orders (outside of other sales) with the code: “newtoearthley.” Can not be combined with another sale code. MUST be used this on their first order as the system will block them from using this code after that purchase. https://www.earthley.com/product/elderberry-sale-2020/ref/tamtbell/? Fall is just days away.
In February as Covid19 was picking up steam across the globe, my job as a Corporate Travel Agent became even more intense and the world was collectively becoming crazier and toilet paper became almost as valuable as gold we as a family began speculating. We knew we needed to add some more laying hens to our flock since we lost a good amount during the long, cold, and hard winter
My goal, always, is to make something from our property. After all, if I make something from our property then doesn’t that mean my property has more value? I would think anyways. Ultimately it also boils down to the idea of “what if the grocery store went away, even for a little bit?” That sounds kind of crazy however lets go back five months and say that instead I wanted
Time to beautify. Well almost. The snow is ALMOST gone and soon it will be summer. Our summers are extremely short so I have to hurry and get our front yard looking like something along the lines of the photo here. We removed many of our trees in our front yard two years ago for a couple of reasons. First it’s not safe having trees so close to our yard,
No I personally have not moved. But my blog has. I touched on this some on my Facebook page recently. I have decided it is timet to jump right in with both feet and get moving to my new website. I’ve been holding back some on this move as it was one that would cost money. The more you read my posts you will see, I’m thinking about living frugally.
Long ago, when we were living in Maryland we had the goal to reduce our grocery store consumption. We set ourselves a limit of only shopping local and minimal shopping at the grocery store. Here’s the link to that challenge. Tough Decisions Now due to worldwide events, we are revisiting that idea however instead we’re challenging ourselves to grow as much as we can ourselves. This means fruits, vegetables, proteins and
The past couple of weeks have been interesting to say the least. Our temperatures here in Interior Alaska have gone from positive temperatures in the teens to lows of -40. While the house is hanging in there, of course, no surprise there. This place was built to last, we have lost a couple of animals and now as of today, the 5th of January, we are housing three chickens in
This morning our family finished breakfast, were engaged in cleaning up and putting things away. I decided I’d really like a cup of cappuccino before I got moving on making some salsa with some reduced tomatoes from Fred Meyers yesterday. Suddenly I heard a large bird, I mean really large hit the front window. I exclaimed loudly “what the heck was that?” Of course my husband Edward just answered “huh?
I can’t believe the year is almost over with. Its Mid-November, the ground is fully covered with snow (finally), and we’re just about done for the season. This year seemed to be more about protein farming than our garden really; when I sit and ponder it. Slowly but surely our property is becoming more and more productive. In July I posted that it seemed as if our meat rabbit production
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