How to Build a Cheap Raised Garden Bed
Cheap Garden Beds – Using Recycled Building Supplies After four years of heavy use, my raised garden beds are starting to fall apart and need replacing. Before I gave in to spending money on supplies, I wanted to make sure there wasn’t anything lying...
9 Tips for Raising Baby Chickens
Raising Baby Chickens for Beginners I would consider us seasoned baby chicken growers. We have successfully raised over one hundred baby chicks within the last couple of years. So when I got a question from one of my readers asking if I could give her any tips on...
What does it mean to live a simple life?
Old Fashion by Nature – Simplistic by Choice What it doesn’t mean is depriving yourself of the good things in life. What it means is to slow down life and enjoy life. I was born in a small rural town in Pennsylvania where waking up to chickens crowing and...
Old Fashion Jump Rope Songs – Memories from the past!
Jump Rope Songs and Rhymes One of my first memories of singing jump rope songs were in elementary school jumping rope to “Down in the valley where the green grass grows there sat Tracy sweet as a rose…” What I also remember is my white knee-high...
Homemade Pancakes Recipe & Tips for the Perfect Pancake
Homemade Pancake Recipe You know it’s the weekend at our house when you smell bacon and hear the sizzle of homemade pancakes hitting the griddle. I’ve made more pancakes than any other breakfast food and have picked up a few tips along the way to make the...
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.