Well, if you keep up with The Homestead Experiment you know we got a new homestead. And while we’re thankful to have found a new place, we were moving the first of summer, which put us behind on planting. But we finally got it done! And boy have our plants taken off! The biggest endeavor … Continue reading »
Today has been “Git ‘er Done Day!” I’ve made 2 loaves of bread, a batch of crackers, 2 dozen waffles, hard-boiled eggs, homemade pasta, and tapioca pudding. All this while packing boxes. Yep – you heard that right: packing. boxes.{sigh} So here’s the long and short of it: we recently received notice from our landlord … Continue reading »
Well last month I tried to make homemade peanut butter with less-than-stellar results. Remember this? It turned out far too thick. We couldn’t even use it for sandwiches because it tore up the bread. When I posted about it, many of you told me that I just didn’t allow it to blend long enough. I … Continue reading »
It’s a sad day. We’re feeling mournful over here. Maybe you should add in a dash of aggravated too. Half of our seedlings died on us. So did our celery. {sigh} We went into this expecting failures. We didn’t expect to take those failures so personally! We will not be conquered! We’re replanting and trying … Continue reading »
The thought finally occurred to me: We’ve arrived. We’re homesteaders. We enjoyed large slices of our homemade bread, spread with locally-sourced honey for breakfast today. I can’t tell you how immensely satisfying that was. Then I set about doing laundry with my homemade detergent. And made more because it was just about gone. And hung … Continue reading »
One of the mantras of homesteaders is “Use Everything.” Making the most of every single thing is part of the homesteading mindset. It’s NOT a part of the normal American family’s mindset. This includes using reusable cans and jars like I do for my yogurt and peanut butter. Or like saving all of the … Continue reading »
We’ve been looking at all these grandiose composters at Lowe’s. We’ve been looking at grandiose building plans online. And looked. And looked. And looked. But not doing anything about it. Then one day hubs was grabbing lunch at a fast food sandwich place near his office and noticed they were selling pickle buckets for $2 … Continue reading »
Some more planting took place this week. Have you ever heard of planting potatoes in a laundry basket? Hehe…neither did we. Until we started reading all kinds of gardening blogs and saw people saying they were having a lot of success with this method. We figured, “Hey – we’ve got a laundry basket. And potatoes … Continue reading »
Hi! I’m Anna. I’m the oldest child in this house. And I asked if I could write a blog post (Mom’s going to fix my spelling errors. ) I’m super excited about parts of this Homestead Experiment. Like the garden. I’m having a lot of fun watching the seedlings grow each day. My mom even … Continue reading »
Last weekend the weather was downright balmy. So much so that we needed to get our fingers in the dirt. It’s seemed like the perfect combination for planting seeds! We’ve been saving empty toilet tubes since we began this experiment. And since we have grandiose plans for this garden of ours (heh!) we still didn’t … Continue reading »
