Waldo and Polly. Photo taken June 2015. I think of the various farm animals Dan and I have had, pigs have been a hands-down favorite....

Here is my amaranth harvest for 2016. A small Golden Giant amaranth head. That's it. One small head of amaranth seeds. But even t...

Saturday morning as I was getting ready to go out for chores I heard Dan calling me to come quickly. I ran to the back door to discover we h...

Dan grew up eating scrapple, but I had never heard of it until we took our first trip to Pennsylvania together. We stopped at a quaint co...

If you've read my blog for awhile or my first book , then you know that one of our cornerstones of homesteading is our Master Plan Whe...

One of the lessons learned from homesteading with animals is to not get too attached to them. For one thing we just don't have the ro...

When I mention our Jerusalem artichokes (or sunchokes), people often ask me what I do with them. Well, I feed them whole to the pigs, and wa...

Everybody's growing fast! The piglets are a little over two weeks old now. On warm days they are out and about. We ended up wit...

This time of year there isn't much growing, but one thing that I see everywhere is chickweed. Chickweed ( Stellaria media ) is a pr...

Tomorrow I announce the winner of the Trailersteading giveaway , but I wanted to sneak in a few of the latest baby goat photos. I can't...