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Tag Archives: country life
Remembering Past Chicken Butchering Days
It has been quiet on the mini-farm this week. We’re getting ready to gather the annual Christmas tree and preparing the pig for going to the butcher next week. In the quiet of winter coming on, I’ve been reminiscing on … Continue reading
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Tagged chicken butchering, chicken butchering eqiupment, chicken butchering table, chicken killing cone, chicken scalder, country, country life, country living, country skills, farm, farm animals, fresh butcherd chicken, homemade, homestead, homesteading, mini-farm, on-farm butchering, pastured poultry, whizbang chicken plucker
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Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Four
Here’s update number four in my Tillage Radish experiment this year. The pictures below were taken last week. We’ve had many nights in the low 30’s, high 20’s but still some fairly warm days and nights for this time of … Continue reading
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Tagged bed, country life, country living, cover crop, food, garden, gardening, homestead, mini-farm, nitrogen, permaculture, plant, soil, soil improvement, tillage radish, weeds
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Extending Fall Lettuce Harvest With Floating Row Covers and Other Tips
Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends in the U.S.! We’ve enjoyed another great Thanksgiving as a family and we pray you had a wonderful Thanksgiving as well. There is much for us to be thankful for, and one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged country, country life, country living, country skills, eliot coleman, fall gardening, fall harvest, farm, floating row cover, food, garden, gardening, greens, growing, homestead, lettuce, mini-farm, planting, row cover, season extender, wide row
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2012 Fall Party
This last Saturday our family hosted a great fall party. Fall parties are one of our favorite things to do on our country homestead. Many our wonderful friends came and we had a blast! We had a huge bonfire and lots of good food. Dad … Continue reading
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Tagged bonfire, country fun, country life, country living, fall, fall party, family, family fun, farmall M, fellowship, food, fun, games, hayride, haywagon, homestead, party
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Why Do We Homestead…
Is the central questioned posed in one of the main articles in the current issue of one of favorite magazines, “CountrySide & Small Stock Journal.” In this article, founder and editor emeritus J.D Belanger examines the progression of the definition … Continue reading
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Tagged country, country life, country living, family, family fun, farm animal, farm animals, food, gardening, homestead, homesteading, land, mini-farm, off the grid, the have more plan
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Reflections on the Missouri Senatorial Debate & The Country Life
I take a short diversion in this post by talking a little about the elections coming up. In reality, it is not that much of a diversion because the freedom we have to live our country lives, with the ability … Continue reading
