I don’t consider our place a farm, but I do consider it our homestead. We have a garden every year that provides us with fresh vegetables to eat throughout the summer and some to put up for use in the winter. When we used to raise chickens for the meat, and my husband gets a […]
Living in the country is so peaceful. Walking down a dirt road, feeling the sunshine on your face, and hearing nothing but the birds chirping is so much nicer than the craziness of the city. Here is what it is like around my home. Daylilies….. Rows of daylilies……. My husbands grandfather grew them and when […]
Why does it always seem that the month of May just goes by way too fast? Between Mother’s Day, our anniversary and my birthday there is always something to do. Add the graduation this year and there is the usual outdoor chores that are needing tended to, the month is gone in a blink of […]
It has been a wet spring around here in NW PA. We had a neighbor mention that this was the first time that his riding mower has been stuck in his yard, and that is saying something since we live on a hill. I had been itching all winter to get our garden started and […]
Today was a day of getting things done. I wanted to make some muffins and I wanted to try making my own hamburger buns. I found a recipe over at Hickery Holler Farm and I fell in love with it! There is nothing in it except honest ingredients. I made mine bigger because I wanted to make […]
This years garden was not the best for us and many others. Ours started off just fine, then all of a sudden everything just stopped. Quite depressing for anyone who likes to grow their own food. We still have some peppers left that are doing ok, but everything else is done. We dug up our […]
It has been a crazy and hectic last couple of days so I thought that I would leave you with a few pictures of what is growing on the homestead. I took these pictures while I was hanging laundry on the line. Roses are blooming from one of the bushes that we planted this spring. […]
Finally our garden is producing! After so much rain and now we are having extreme heat, the garden is doing well. We have lots of tomatoes growing and I even checked our grape tomatoes. We have tons that are green and several that are orange red. There were several this morning that were perfect for […]
It has been awhile since I have been on here. Family in from out of town, day trip with the family and work doesn’t leave a whole lot of time left in a day. Well, I am back! I noticed that we had our first daylily open the other day so I took a picture […]
Yesterday my daughter and I went berry picking. Strawberry picking to be exact. It has been very hot and humid here and we had rain in the morning, so we thought that we should pick in the afternoon between storms. There wasn’t very many people picking and I thought that there wasn’t much left, but […]
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