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Tag Archives: country life
Top 10 Family Games – Part 1
Winter is a good time to recharge and prepare for the coming outdoor projects and growing season. It is also a great time to enjoy the family indoors and spend time together playing games. We love to play games as … Continue reading
Posted in Games
Tagged blokus, boggle, country life, country living, country skills, family, family fun, games, life on the farm, phase 10, qwirkle, rummikub, scrabble, sequence, ticket to ride, top 10 games, zooloretto
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New Year, New Possibilities
With the New Year upon us, many of us think about new possibilities and goals for improving our homestead and making things better. Especially as the new seed catalogs start coming in, I personally like to think about new things … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged biointensive, country, country life, country living, country skills, family, farm, garden, gardening, goals, grow biointensive, homestead, homesteading, John Jeavons, land, mini-farm, new year, resolutions, tillage radish
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Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Five
Here’s update number five in my Tillage Radish cover crop experiment. Winter is in full swing at the end of December. The radish foliage has pretty much died completely and the tubers are starting to rot although the bigger ones are … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged chickens, country, country life, country living, country skills, cover crop, farm, farm animal, farm animals, garden, gardening, growing, homestead, homesteading, mini-farm, permaculture, tillage radish
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Merry Christmas from the Braley’s!
Merry Christmas to all our friends both old and new. Our family has been knocked down by the flu these last several days. Yet, we are still very grateful for our many blessings including a warm country home and the … Continue reading
Posted in Family
Tagged country, country life, country living, family, homestead, homesteading
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Pig Butchering Results
The results are in and so is the meat! This week we picked up our pork from the processor. We got a fairly good spread for the size of our pig, and all-in-all we are very pleased. He was on the … Continue reading
Posted in Farm Animals, General
Tagged butchering, carcass, country, country life, country living, country skills, family, farm, farm animal, farm animals, hanging weight, hog, hog butchering, homestead, lard, lard rendering, live weight, market weight, mini-farm, on the hoof, pig, pig butchering, pig processing, pig weight, render
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Hog Wrestling (a.k.a. Delivering Pig to Butcher)
This week we took the pig to the local processor to get butchered. What an ordeal it was. First some background: “Stripe” the pig was born in April, we bought him as a feeder pig in June and we’re butchering … Continue reading
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Tagged butchering, country, country life, country living, country skills, equipment, family, farm, farm animal, farm animals, hog, hog butchering, homestead, homesteading, mini-farm, pig
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