Accidental Homesteader

Homesteading

  • Egg Watch 2019 Has Begun

    We hatched a sixteen chickens 19 weeks ago. So it’s high time they started earning their keep. Pullets gather, and… Read More

  • Food Fail

    So you may recall that I did a cabbage tether ball. My chickens: So I took it down, and it… Read More

  • Beautiful Night

    There were storms coming that resulted in some lovely pictures. I shall post them because I have terrible insomnia this… Read More

  • Honey Harvest

    So apparently we should have been feeding our bees a month ago. Our supers had no action, so we took… Read More

  • Vintage Market

    Down the street we have neighbors who run a vintage market every fall. Read More

  • Pressure Cooker Chili Verde

    So we got a pressure cooker, not an instant pot, but close. We made dynamite chili verde and rice and… Read More

  • Chicken Tetherball

    So I finally made a chicken tetherball. Easy enough, take head of cabbage (or half, if your husband bogarts the… Read More

  • Trying this again —

    So I made a restraining last year from some hatch chiles and it was a pain. This year I tried… Read More

  • Three Layers Again

    Frances, being a good chicklet mom stopped laying for a while. But it’s been a month, and I think she’s… Read More

  • The Cute, it Burns!

    I decided to commune with the chicklets this fine evening. Read More