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Red Apples, Yellow Apples, Yummy Apples!
Apples cider, applesauce, apple pie…I just love apples! Although the kids and I had picked a few apples and worked them up into applesauce and apple pie in a jar we hadn’t done any apple juice until...
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More Apple Cider
Earlier I had mentioned that my husband had improved our apple press. Well I finally snapped a few pictures while we were pressing apples Saturday. Apples waiting to be pressed. The blue tub had both...
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What a CRAZY Month
Let me just say that although I haven’t had time to blog about it, this place has been hopping! Although it has been crazy busy, we are absolutely LOVING it! Here are some of the projects we have...
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Chicken Brooder
After a very busy spring and summer we are finally to a place where we have time to build the chicken brooder and get some chicks and ducklings. I really don’t particularly like getting chicks when it...
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Top Bar Bee Hives
For quite some time I have wanted to start beekeeping. The majority of my winter reading material has been on bees in preparation for this spring. Shortly after we moved back to our family farm we...
View ArticleMore About Life’s Ups and Downs
One of the life events that I had in mind when I wrote: Ups and Downs: Twists and Turns was the progress or lack thereof on the family farm house. Scott and I thought that we would have moved into the...
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Ultimate DIY Bundle Details
I have to admit until recently I had never heard of the Ultimate DIY Bundle. A fellow member of the TOS Crew first introduced me and I sure am glad she did! The Ultimate DIY Bundle is valued at over...
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Building a Cabin: Our Construction Lesson
We are finally in our cabin! Although there are a few things to finalize, for the most part we are finished (or at least quitting.) Building our cabin has been such a learning experience on so many...
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DIY Inexpensive Livestock Waterer
One of the most important aspects of a farm or homestead is the livestock water system. Perhaps it is cost prohibitive for you to install underground water lines and automatic waterers or perhaps you...
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Portable Automatic Waterer
Recently we set up an automatic waterer on a pallet so that it could be portable. We don’t really want to put a lot of permanent infrastructure on this farm as we are just renting it, but we also like...
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Farm Progress: Adding Outlets to an Existing Shed
We are converting an existing shed to our winter farrowing house. This particular shed did have electricity to it and has lights, however, it only has a couple of outlets. One of the upgrades needed...
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Farm Progress: Farrowing Barn Improvements
The shed that we are converting to our farrowing barn has/had several issues that we wanted to address: two of the skylights had blown off, the electrical box and much of the wiring needed replaced and...
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Farm Progress: The Farrowing Huts are Finished
We finished building the new farrowing huts with virtually no time to spare. So far the design of the huts seems to be working well. We have been busy, busy with taking turns checking on sows and...
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Building Garden Boxes
Do you get frustrated with a traditional row garden? I know I sure do!! It seems that we always hit a rainy period where the weeds grow, well like weeds. Then I can’t get in the garden to pull them...
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Building a Grape Trellis: Part I
You may recall that we transplanted our grapes to our new farm back in November. In anticipation of them growing, I have wanted to get started on building the arbor. Friday the weather was fairly...
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Raised Strawberry Pyramid Bed Plans
Here are the plans for the strawberry beds that we made. This spring we made three of these; however, I plan to continue to add more strawberry beds as we can. Supply List 2 – 2″x 6″ x 12′ boards 2 –...
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It’s Getting Warmer…Inside
This year there have been so many projects that I had on my to-do list that we accomplished but so many others that we didn’t get done. Of course, it seems like that is always the way. Lately, we have...
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DIY Lamb/Goat Nursing Buckets on the Cheap
If you’re like me, time is precious. Although I enjoy working with bottle babies, whether it’s lambs, kids, or calves, I also have many other projects demanding my time. So this year when we ended up...
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Repurposing an Entertainment Center into an Armoire
One of the dilemmas that comes with living in a home that was originally designed as a barn and then later as a hunters’ lodge, is that there aren’t any closets. No not one. I could only take that for...
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Say Goodbye to the Kitchen Hydrant
Our home was originally built as a barn, and then transformed into a hunting lodge. While we love our farm and home (for the most part anyway. lol), there were some things that we didn’t love so much....
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