Sometimes you just want things to be easy. Working in the garden all day can be enjoyable but by the end of the day I’m pooped! Last thing I want to do is scrub and clean my tools. Saving a few moments in my day can really add up and this little trick helps add to those saved moments! Check…
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Easy Way To Clean & Store Garden Tools
Farm Garden Transition into Fall
When you think about it life really is just a bunch of snippets. Bits of this and that all folded together to create your day. Life here on the farm is like that. I call it our Patchwork life. We wouldn’t have it any other way . Now that Fall is here it’s time to transition the garden. Soon you’ll…
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How To Wrap an IBC Tote
What homesteader has extra time to spare? Not us for sure and most likely you don’t either! Today I am wrapping our fourth IBC with black plastic to keep the rays of the sun and algae out of our tanks. Algae. The dreaded enemy of our IBC’s. Not only does it make the water disgusting, it takes plenty of time…
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Fall Garden Transition
Can you believe we are at the beginning of Fall? It’s my favorite time of year. That bit of coolness in the air, leaves changing and for the first time I am learning about transitioning a garden from Summer to Fall. I’ve learned so much from our first real garden this year. One of the things I’ve learned is that…
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New Keets. New Problems.
Are guinea keets hard to raise? Usually not but this time around I’ve lost quite a few. What’s going on? In this video I look at making some changes. Raising guinea hens is NOT hard but this new batch has included some new issues that I’ve never dealt with before. Six losses. That’s way too much. In the three years…
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