This past Sunday we had a get together at our homestead. It was a wonderful time of fellowship. Everyone brought a pot of chili and some of us dumped it together in a bigger pot. People were filling bowl after bowl of hot chili, adding crackers, cheese, sour cream, or corn chips. Children lined up […]
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We use to spend a lot of money on these liquid hand soaps. One way we save money is by making our own for what I spend on one bottle liquid hand soap, I can make a whole gallon. DIRECTIONS: Grate a whole bar of your favorite soap into a huge stock pot. Use a
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Yesterday was my first day off from working on my book. It was like I was bird flying free. The thing I wanted to do most was clean and can tomatoes. The girls wanted to help a young mother clean her home because she had a baby not too long ago, so my normal canning
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“God has been truly faithful to send me some sisters in the Lord to contribute great articles to share on my blog while I am writing my new book, LIVING VIRTUOUSLY. I hate to leave you all without some encouragement. This article is such a pretty picture of life and faith, using a natural application
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Congratulations to Bonnie Patten and Sarah Grignon for winning the Cleaning Cloth Giveaway! For this weeks giveaway we are offering a book from One Ash Farm & Dairy Supply. The book is called The Family Cow. The One Ash Farm & Dairy Supply carry plenty of great homesteading supplies! I enjoy visiting their store.
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Life is springing up on the farm. The girls just bought 17 Khaki Campbell duckings from a neighbor down the lane. We brought a little cardboard box and the girls lovingly placed their little ducklings into it. The entire way home you could hear their tiny webbed feet prancing around. It was such a cute
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There is much going on at the farm. Miles has been enjoying his greenhouse. He planted a few rows in there with isles and mulched it. Things are growing really well. There are green beans… And tomatoes… Lettuce and radishes with a compost bin in the corner. Here is a nice lettuce plant. It is
Community Blessings… Things around the homestead are growing nicely despite the torrential rains we have been enduring in middle Tennessee. Fences have been mended and fruit trees propped back in the vertical position. Half of the garden was washed away and the kindness of neighbors has been such an overwhelming blessing in the midst of
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You know the old saying “The grass is greener on the other side of the fence”? Well, it is. Our last homestead had a rockier soil and seemed better for goats and sheep. Our cow was making the most of it, but I tell you, the pasture over on our new place is way greener
I just wanted to let all my readers know that I have not forgotten about my blog. We have been moving to a new farm! We have been entrusted to run a farm in Tennessee not too far from the homestead we were renting (would like to find renters for our old homestead in TN).
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