What To Do With A Feral Bee Swarm In Your Yard
Apparently, bees can’t keep a secret. It seems the local bees have been telling all their little bee friends about my edible garden and organic flowers. Of course that is a good thing. We all want...
View ArticleSWEET! Keeping Up With Farmstead Fruit
All of the fruit ripening at the Farmstead Project has made life a SWEET ride the last month or so. Every visit brings new discoveries in deliciousness and new challenges on how to preserve the bounty....
View ArticleHarvesting and Storing Homegrown Apples for Winter
If you’re a regular reader here, you know that I am managing the small orchard on our family farmstead in Northern California. Well as you can imagine, we’ve had literally hundreds of heirloom apples...
View ArticleDay 1: Resources for Growing Fruit Trees
This post is part of the 31 Days of Living Homegrown. Sign up for my newsletter (weekly or monthly) so you don’t miss any of the inspiration and resources I will be sharing for living local, fresh and...
View ArticleDay 3: Inspired by HoneyLove Bees
This post is part of the 31 Days of Living Homegrown. Sign up for my newsletter (weekly or monthly) so you don’t miss any of the inspiration and resources I will be sharing for living local, fresh and...
View ArticleDay 13 – Must Fresh Eggs Be Refrigerated?
The most recent 31 Days of Living Homegrown posts have focused a lot on agriculture and our food system. So I thought it was time change it up. Let’s get back to some homesteading topics! So here we...
View ArticleDay 16 – Online Chicken Keeping Supplies
If you are a city homesteader like me, you don’t have access to a big farm supply store to get equipment for your chickens. Some of my friends who to live in a places like Portland and Seattle can just...
View ArticleDay 21 – What to Do When Your Backyard Hen is a “He”
It happened yesterday. I was working in my office at dawn, when I heard a funny noise. {You know what’s coming, right?} It sounded like a sick cat or a hurt animal. I immediately started walking from...
View ArticleDay 24: Biggest Concerns About Raising Backyard Chickens
FAQs about Backyard Chickens As an urban homesteader who owns city chickens, I get asked a lot of questions about the care and maintenance of my flock. I’ve noticed that I get the same questions over...
View ArticleDay 25: How to Clip Your Chicken’s Wings
First, Should You Clip or Not? It can be a dilemma for many backyard chicken owners – To clip or not to clip their chicken’s wings. The answer is that you don’t need to do it unless your chickens are...
View ArticleThe Truth About Keeping Backyard Goats
As a city homesteader for the last 23 years, I couldn’t be happier about the current trends aimed at a healthier lifestyle for ourselves and our families. Growing vegetables and fruits in our...
View ArticleNew Homesteading Magazine Gets Personal With Me
Have you heard of From Scratch Magazine? It’s a fairly new digital magazine that is focuses on homesteading and living a more simple lifestyle. It has feature stories, DIY, resources and even a few...
View ArticleRestoring a Vintage Kitchen Garden – Part 1
We have many projects going on simultaneously at The 1892 Farmstead right now. But one that I didn’t get a chance to tell you about yet is the planting/restoring of the farm kitchen garden. When my...
View ArticleSWEET! Keeping Up With Farmstead Fruit
All of the fruit ripening at the Farmstead Project has made life a SWEET ride the last month or so. Every visit brings new discoveries in deliciousness and new challenges on how to preserve the bounty....
View ArticleHarvesting and Storing Homegrown Apples for Winter
If you’re a regular reader here, you know that I am managing the small orchard on our family farmstead in Northern California. Well as you can imagine, we’ve had literally hundreds of heirloom apples...
View ArticleDay 26: When Homesteading, It’s Okay to Fail
As I am closing in on the final posts of my 31 days of living homegrown, I wanted to mention something important. I recently had a discussion with a group of writers about perfection in our writing....
View Article5 Holistic Pruning Steps to Restoring Old Fruit Trees (Step #2 was so hard...
My family is restoring an 1892 Farmstead in Northern CA. I’m in charge of the heirloom orchard and garden renovation. Other family members are in charge of restoring the farmhouse and outbuildings. You...
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