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My very first actual attempt at real food gardening was in 2018 at a home me and Austin, my fiancé at the time but currently my husband, were renting. We were both fresh out of graduate school, first-generation college g...

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As I have been planning my garden this year, ordering seeds from my favorite companies far away, preparing soil, adding in beds, and all the other things I’ve learned you do before planting time, I have been trying to be...

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I was at a farmers market event recently at my hometown’s library, networking with small scale, local farmers and helping them with their photography and marketing needs, when I found myself in a very important conversat...

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More coming soon....

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As I was changing my one-year-old daughter’s clothes this morning in our bed where she has slept since her first few weeks earthside, my husband was rummaging through the closet for the suit jacket he was going to wear f...

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When planning out my homestead goals each year, I strive to list all projects in order of importance. What really needs to be done and when to be functional and effective on our homestead. With the voice of reason in my ...

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This time last year, I was 10 weeks pregnant with my first child, my daughter Mallory. I was also overzealous and consumed with all my plans and dreams for the first growing season at our new house and homestead that we ...

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I want to start out by saying something I learned very early in my beekeeping journey. Keeping bees is a lot like raising children. Everybody does it differently, there is no right or wrong way to go about most of it, an...

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When people are like I want chickens and I want to be a chicken tender (a person who keeps chic, I’m like Do IT! 💃🐓But I don’t like to let people think chickens are simply wonderful and easy to keep and there aren’t da...

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Last winter, my dad found a woman on Facebook yardsale advertising Coturnix Quail hatching eggs. I had been reading about quail and their benefits on a small homestead and was super excited to see that someone in my area...

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\nSince last spring, I’ve been on this journey to pay more attention to the food I eat, what my pups eat, and even what I feed the animals that produce food for my family. \nI am the type of person that likes to be learnin...

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