I love springtime! I love seeing growth come up on the trees, watching as flowers bloom and the grass growing in nice and green! I don’t know about you, but I am over this whole social distancing stuff. I know, it’s the best thing we can do right now, but I miss visiting with my …
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Our misadventures into homesteading
Hey folks, Farm Daddy here. This is my first post and it’s about something most of us love. Bacon! Back in 2014 or so we were stationed in Monterey California with the Army. As you might imagine, things were significantly more expensive there than in other parts of the country. We were at the store …
All over the world people are being quarantined to their homes to help prevent the spread of Covid 19. Our state is on lockdown with only essential businesses open. Our town is like a ghost town and it’s pretty eerie to see everything closed. The kids are home from school for who knows how long, …
As most of the world watches, as coronavirus takes over, we are proceeding with life as normal…somewhat. The kids are all home from school for the next two weeks at least. From there who knows. We’ve heard of some places being out indefinitely. So who knows what’s going to happen. Farmdaddy has been hard at …
As most know, we’ve been trying to get our seeds started and garden ready for weeks now. It seems as if we have had setback after setback so far. It’s really hard to not get frustrated when you are so close and then having a monkey wrench get thrown in the mix. It’s finally been …
One of the things that I wanted to do when I started this blog was to make sure to show the times when things don’t go as planned. That’s what this post is all about, to show a realistic view of day to day life. Some of you know, when we moved here, we had …
Those that know me, know my love for the holidays. However, once New Year’s has come and gone I get excited for Spring! We take January to just rest and recoup from all of the festivities. February is what we like to call our planning month. We’re planning out where we will put our garden …
Well we did it. We broke down and bought birds. We were initially planning on waiting until spring…but they had what we wanted at the farm store so we got them. Farmdaddy built our coop with help from the oldest farmboy and his cousin and her husband. It was a bit more expensive than buying …
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