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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
Posted in Gardening
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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Winter Firewood Cutting
It’s that time of the year again when the family works together to gather the firewood for the winter. Cutting our own firewood can be a lot of work, but we all enjoy being in the woods in the fall … Continue reading
Posted in Wood Heating
Tagged bucking, country, country skills, family, famly work, farm, farmall, farmall M, firewood, hardy, hardy wood furnace, homestead, homesteading, husky, husky wood splitter, land, log skidding, mini-farm, wood cutting
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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
Posted in Family, General
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
Posted in Family, General
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
Comfrey: Great Source of Homegrown Food for Farm Animals
Within the midst of fall, the vegetation around our mini-farm makes its last burst of growth before winter comes on. Our comfrey is no exception. As I posted before, I love comfrey, and no homestead should be without it especially … Continue reading
Posted in Farm Animals, Gardening
Tagged animal feed, chicken, comfrey, comfrey as feed, comfrey as food, comfrey leaves, country, country living, country skills, farm, farm animal, farm animals, feed ration, food protein, gardening, herb, homegrown animal feed, homestead, mini-farm, nutrient, permaculture, pig, protein, vitamin A, vitamin B-12, vitamin C
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