Winner’s Wednesday: Our Last Week Winner…Congratulations to Kourtney Teubel from Illinios! This Week’s Giveaway: The Homesteader!!!! $159 Value… The “Homesteader” is our Extra Large drying rack for every day usage. This lovely drying rack holds a very large load or “Super Load”. This is our family friendly drying rack. (We have a large family and needed something that […]
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With the frigid winter we all experienced this year, thoughts of Spring are needful. Here on our Tennessee Homestead this week, we have been having a “cold snap”. The cow and her calf are waiting on the warmer weather of spring. They search to no avail for blades of tender grass to nibble on. Moo
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Winner’s Wednesday: Our last week winner… Congratulations to Jeanna Morgan from North Carolina! She is very excited to try out her new Peddler Rack. Pioneer Giveaway… I would love to get the word out on my husband’s hand crafted Homestead Drying Racks. To thank you for helping us promote our blog and store, we would like
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Yesterday after church, I came up with this spontaneous plan, which is not out of the ordinary for me. It was a most beautiful, sunshiny, warm day and that works together to rejuvenate my mind. Rebeca had a birthday the day before and I thought, why not have a girls tea party to celebrate. While
Now Closed: Winner Jeanna Morgan from North Carolina, Congrats! I would love to get the word out on my husband’s hand crafted Homestead Drying Racks. To thank you for helping us promote our blog and store, we would like to start running weekly giveaways of the various products we offer and love. Some may think a
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Yesterday morning, our cow had her second calf. It is a bull calf. We were hoping for a bull calf because we have a heifer already that will soon be ready for breeding in spring. Last May we let Marilla Moo run with a holstein bull when we still lived in Amishland. Our Amish landlord
Many people would love to live in community like the Amish do. So many of us crave that warm community life and all it has to offer. The singings, barn raisings, and canning bees. It is the over and over of living that seems so romantic, so simple. Where there is no television set gleaming
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These fall days, the air is crisp, the color is rich, and the beauty is full of God’s great creativity. As Mark started cleaning up the homestead after a very brushy start, it revealed all kinds of treasures. We discovered several Shagbark Trees and Wild Persimmon Trees. The ground was just gleaming with orange balls
This past Sunday, we drove up to where it all began. The day that we promised to love one another for the rest of our days. Mark and I were married in this little chapel in Door County 15 years ago this month. I saw the chapel while studying at Lawrence University. It was hand
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The photo above is of Miles and I. I was hiking up a cliff holding my baby boy. My, has time gone by! Miles is nearly 14 years old. I took care of 5 little ones all by myself most of the time when my husband was out earning a living. I would take my
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