I am trying to log my every day homesteading work for your benefit as well as my own. Go here for my rabbits timeline of work invested and returns: http://floridahillbilly.com/calendars/rabbits/ —- Go here for my birds timeline of work invested and returns: http://floridahillbilly.com/birds-chickens-ducks-quail/ —- Go here for my garden timeline of work invested and returns: […]
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Volunteers or, “Free food you weren’t expecting”
I’ve been working at gardening in my back yard for almost two years now, and I’m guilty of a bad habit. From time to time, I’ll take seeds and randomly scatter them across the yard to see what happens. Most of them either decompose, or get eaten by one of my foraging birds, but occasionally, […]
More than just Dirt
Worked in the garden today. Had to get those seedlings I purchased earlier this week into the ground! As I was prepping the beds for their new residents, I noticed how
Your local nursery, baby!
I stopped by a local nursery today with a friend I’ll call Blue Tang. BT wanted to pick up some plants for his garden, and since he was driving…… I was dragging my feet because he’s my enabler. Ever have a buddy that would somehow talk you into
Survival Podcast
Survival Podcast. Jack Spirko tells it as he sees it. Sometimes I agree. Sometimes I do not. But I always walk away glad I listened, he usually offers something of value in every podcast. Topics are on survival, self-sufficiency, gardening, product reviews, hunting, trapping, food preservation, economic threats, long-term prepping, self-improvement and other various topics […]
Why grow your own food?
When one of my daughters was 5 years old, we noticed she was developing significantly faster than we thought she should be. Our pediatrician tested her and found
Welcome
I’ve started blogging a dozen times, each eventually fizzled out for lack of direction. I’m hoping this time will be different, as I am using this as a sort of progress report for my “endeavors”. I put that into quotes because my wife, Elizabeth, wouldn’t refer to them as that. She would more likely call […]
Whoami?
As I was typing out my plans for 2012, I realized you probably don’t know what I have currently, or what my homestead situation is. So here it goes. I’m married, two daughters at home, another married and on her own out of state.My wife, Elizabeth, works as an analyst with two weeks in her […]
Welcome
I’ve started blogging a dozen times, each eventually fizzled out for lack of direction. I’m hoping this time will be different, as I am using this as a sort of progress report for my “endeavors”. I put that into quotes because my wife, Elizabeth, wouldn’t refer to them as that. She would more likely call […]