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I think it might just be possible that I planted too many beans on my bean teepee this year.  The vines are so thick that it takes some serious searching to find those beans.  I’m waiting for the morning when I wake up to find my bean teepee in a giant heap on the ground. …

This week I have several exciting posts to feature and share with you. Many of us homesteaders share our days with a love dog (or sometimes many dogs).  This week Timber Creek Farm shares some tips on training your 4 legged friends. I also have cucumbers rolling in everyday, so this week I have 2…

With summer firmly underway and the early crops rolling in, we’re entering the time of year when dinner is often simply plucked directly from the garden.  The cucumbers this year are sweet, the tomatoes are plentiful, the basil is lush, and the squash are all withering away. My straw bale garden castle has been a…

 Welcome to the Backyard Farming Connection Hop – a place to gather and share each week what is happening in the homestead blogging community.  Take some time to check out this week’s features and visit the links below! Do you dehydrate your fruits and veggies – From Living the Simple Life, here’s a post with…

A few days ago, I alluded to some exciting news in our home.  To give you some more of the details, we are uprooting our small homestead and moving to Southern NH at the end of August.  We knew this move was possible, but the time was a little unsure, and all of a sudden…

This week we’re starting to see more flowers on some of those crops – potato, cucumbers, squash, tomatilla, tomato, and even the leeks I forgot to pull from last year.  We’re already losing a lot of lettuce, peas and broccoli due to the heat, but I have high hopes for the heat loving vegetables this…

  This week as I went about the garden snapping some photos for this week’s series, I had to stop continuously to wipe the humidity from the lens.  With rain and thunderstorms forecast everyday, we’ve entered the hot, humid part of summer, and everywhere we walk the ground seems to sink down like a sponge. …

It’s already the time year when the harvest is starting to come into the kitchen and we shift from frantically planting to preserving (at least it feels frantic in our home). In our yard, the strawberries are ripe and ready to pick which means it’s time to make jam. Here are some fabulous guides to…