Homesteading, Gardening and Backyard Farming
From the Big City to a Simple Homestead
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Dave Ledoux from Back to My Garden a few months ago about our life here on our homestead. Dave and I...
How to Pick the Perfect Watermelon
The heat of a South Carolina summer is perfect for the watermelons that are thriving in my garden right now. I know when the heat of the day pushes...
Organic Fertilizer for Healthy Plants
The popularity of the organic fertilizers is growing by the day, thanks to the many benefits that these products offer. Unlike the chemical...
DIY Seed Box
Hello everyone, my name is Carole West author of Garden Up Green and Quail Getting Started Second Edition. I’m excited to share with you; Tracy is a...
All Natural DIY Fly Spray – For Livestock
Homemade Fly Spray Recipe Flies... Flies.... and more Flies! You know it's summer when the flies start outweighing you! I've tried a few different...
Who’s Eating Your Garden?
Even though I love to garden, and the rewards far out the way the aggravation wild animals cause, trying to figure out which juvenile delinquent is...
A Walk Through my Flower Garden
If you are anything like me ...gardening gets under my skin! I can't get enough of the beautiful blooms I get when I spend some tender loving...
Beginner Beekeeping Supply List – Enjoy Honey All Year Long
There aren't many projects on our homestead that bring us as much satisfaction as our bee hives do. For a small start-up investment in beekeeping...
10 Late Spring Plant Buying Tips
The last few weeks of spring, I put on my radar and start scouring my favorite nurseries for bargain plants to add to my garden. Plants that...
Do you have a Homesteader’s Heart?
The homesteading movement is spreading across the country at lightning speed. Families are looking for ways to live on less, be more...
Keep the Bees in Your Garden Happy
It's garden time and one of the most important aspects of a successful garden is making sure your vegetables and fruit get pollinated. Apples,...
Food Independence – What My Parents Taught Me
I remember as a child my parents didn't have extra money for new shoes or the new Barbie doll I just thought I needed, but I don't ever remember...
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.
