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Learning How To Water Glass Eggs
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Chickens and Eggs You might be wondering why I’m talking about water glassing eggs right now. It’s late fall and most chickens are in the molting stage; where they are losing old feathers and growing new. The sun is going down and there isn’t as much daylight as what we had during the spring…
Every One Needs A Job
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Every one needs a job, what a great philosophy! It is especially true for the small scale homesteader which is exactly what we are. Ron and I work hard and we decided that anything that came to Our DIY Homestead had to do that as well. We moved here about a year ago, here…
Harvesting Peppermint
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This is the week of our gateway herb, peppermint. In our last blog we talked about the different ways to use peppermint. You can find that blog here. Today I’m going to share with you a video I did about harvesting that peppermint. How to bring it in and prepare it for dehydrating and…
PEPPERMINT: THE GATEWAY HERB
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Peppermint is the gateway herb It is said that chickens are the gateway animal for people in neighborhoods to homesteaders on acres of land. And I believe that is true and we can also say the same about peppermint and how it is the gateway herb. It is easy to grow and there are…
New Beginnings
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New beginnings in 2023 bring to me a new home, new garden, and new animals. It could be the best thing that happens to me or the worse.
Welcome to Our YouTube Channel
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Our New YouTube Channel It might be half way through January but Happy New Year! Ron and I have taken on doing a YouTube channel this year and I’d like to share the videos with you weekly here on the blog. Now of course, it if you would like to go and subscribe to…
End of Season Tomatoes…Do This
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If you are a gardener you probably have the same issues with end of the season tomatoes that I do. They ripen one by one and the green ones are threatened with frost so you pick them and then they end up sitting on the counter forgotten and go bad. Click here is how…
Hydroponics – Our Pet Project
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It might seem as if we were quiet on the blog this past week but I assure you that while you might not have seen much from us we were very busy behind the scenes. We were writing content, shooting videos and if you watch carefully you will even see our little Chihuahua, Chi…
Transplanting the Wild and Leggy Brassicas
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Sprouting Seeds I finally got my hands in soil today! It has been a long time since I got my fingers dirty transplanting seedlings so I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Last week I did a video that talked about the need to get your garden seeds and sprouting them. The reason I sprout seeds is…
A Garden Tour in January?
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It’s hard to think that in January there is enough going on in the garden to have a tour. However, you just might be in for a surprise! Come along for the garden tour. Inside Tour To tour my garden we did have to start inside. There are seeds germinating and starting their life.…