Homesteading, Gardening and Backyard Farming
Homemade Beeswax Hand Lotion
From hive to honey to hands with homemade beeswax hand lotion Our bees have been busy making honey and filling our hive box with all-natural beeswax...
Clean Eating Meal Plan on a Homestead Diet
Why I stopped following the doctor's advice and started a clean eating meal plan. For years I've been told; no-fat, low-fat, low-carb, count...
Learn to Become a Producer, Not a Consumer
How to become a Producer, not a Consumer? For us, it means keeping life as simple as possible. It means living as close to the land and being as...
Electric chicken fence saved our hens from a pack of coyotes!
Poultry Net Electric Fence saved the day! Right in the middle of writing this blog post the same gray coyote had the nerve to show up right behind...
When Life Gets Real
Empty pastures, empty pens, empty hen houses…life on the farm is pretty empty. I’ve been quiet the last few months and felt you all deserved an...
A Lesson in Saving the Bees
I remember the day when our granddaughter came running in the house asking her Poppy to come kill the bees that were on the flowers she was trying...
Finding Your Place as a Homesteader
Have you ever wondered what your purpose in life is, or what your life as a homesteader should look like? I remember when I first left my full-time...
Beekeeping for Beginners
Beekeeping for Beginners - One small hive can keep your family in honey all year. Beginner Beekeeping Supply List There's not any other project on...
Enjoy Fresh Herbs All Year Round With An Indoor Herb Garden
I love the outdoors and love my garden, but what I really love is growing an indoor herb garden on my window sill every winter. Nothing is sweeter...
Evergreens that Brighten the Winter Landscape
As winter is approaching and the days are getting darker I look forward to the burst of color I get from my winter landscape. This week I have the...
Relieving Stress While Creating Your Garden Space
There can be times when life really starts to take over and it can get a bit overwhelming. If you are looking for a new way that you can relieve a...
Self-Sufficient Homesteading – Realizing a Dream
Do you dream of owning your own homestead? A place where you can grow your own food, raise your own animals and stop being reliant on those...
Hidden away in the Upstate of South Carolina is a little farm where we call home. Surrounded by century-old pecan and oak trees, we live on a 120-year-old homestead. By the grace of God, we were called to restore this 1890 farmhouse along with its barns, gardens and long-forgotten cotton field to its original working farm. Dedicating ourselves to reusing, recycling and making do we are living a very simple life building our backyard farm.
