Kellen

2016 Garden Tour Wow I’m behind. I have been wanting to do an update on last year’s gardens for months now. I just started planning my 2017 garden and I wanted to document my 2016 garden before I completely forget. So here goes- better late than never! [I’ll try to […]

2016 Garden Tour—Better Late Than Never!

11 Feb, 2017 in Garden tagged Garden / Grow / Plants / Tour by Kellen

We purchased our first goslings in the spring of 2015. We got these babies with the plan being to raise them to adulthood and use them for our breeding stock the following year. But first, we had to raise these cute little fluff balls to adults. So this is our story about our […]

Our First Time Brooding Goslings

6 Feb, 2017 in Geese tagged Brooding / Geese / Goose by Kellen

. If you’ve ever had a run in with a wild Canada Goose or a neighbor’s barnyard goose- odds are you didn’t have a positive experience. So when I tell people we are raising geese the first reaction is: WHY GEESE??? Great question. Glad you asked! No, we aren’t crazy. […]

Why Geese?

13 Jul, 2016 in Geese tagged Geese / Goose by Kellen

How Do I Start A Garden? Three Steps to Start a Garden I’ve been asked “How Do I Start a Garden?” several times and I always seem to fumble with my answer. I’ve planted a garden every year for the last 6 years… You would think I would have a […]

How Do I Start a Garden?

15 Mar, 2016 in Garden tagged Garden / Getting Started / Homestead / Organization / Plants / Seedlings by Kellen

Homesteading Goals 2016 [Year 3] Well, it’s over half-way through February and I’m just now getting around to sharing our homesteading goals for the year…. Woops. 🙂 This marks year three for our backyard homestead. Several things are now in “maintenance mode” [yay!], so it’s time to start getting excited […]

2016 Homesteading Goals

24 Feb, 2016 in Homestead tagged Getting Started / Goals / Homestead / Projects by Kellen

Homesteading Goals 2015 [Year 2] Since we managed to get all our goals done for our 1st year homesteading– the pressure was on for our second year! We really had to fight the temptation to do more than humanly possible. Even though we had many homesteading goals to accomplish- we […]

2015 Homesteading Goals

24 Feb, 2016 in Homestead tagged Getting Started / Goals / Homestead / Projects by Kellen

My husband is lazy. But the good kind of lazy 🙂 He sees hard work and then tries to do as little of it as possible by finding the most efficient way. When we decided to get chickens, it had to be easy to maintain them. Thus, the Lazy Man’s […]

Lazy Man’s Chicken Coop

10 Dec, 2015 in Chickens tagged Chicken Coop / Chickens / DIY Project by Kellen

Chickens. No homestead seems complete without them. They’re quite trendy and all the rage these days. When we first got married, I always assumed that we would *someday* have chickens. Funny, because at the time my husband was more interested in computer games and jiu jitsu. Oh how time [and opportunity] […]

Hatching & Brooding Chicks- In Our Spare Bathroom

11 Nov, 2015 in Chickens tagged Brooding / Chickens / Hatching / Spare Bathroom by Kellen

The term “Fruit Forest” or “Food Forest” has become a common term for us [and our kids], but it hasn’t always been. My husband had been listening to podcasts where he was introduced to the ideas of Permaculture and food forests. Here’s our definition of a Fruit Forest: A food or […]

Our Simple “ Fruit Forest ”

11 Nov, 2015 in Fruit Forest tagged Comfrey / Contour Lines / Food Forest / Fruit Forest / Fruit Trees / Perennial Garden by Kellen

Gardening. Whether you do it in a pot or by the acre, there is something about it that fills your soul [and your tummy]. It’s nice to get the fresh air, sunshine, exercise, and in the end- food. With about 43,000 square feet of *clear* land, you wouldn’t think it […]

First Year In Our Terraced Garden

11 Nov, 2015 in Garden tagged Bag Construction / Garden / Plants / Terraced Garden by Kellen