Gardening with Kids

Growing Gardeners! Gardening is fun and rewarding activity for kids.  It’s a perfect homesteading hobby for the whole family! My husband and I love gardening; flowers, herbs, vegetables, and more. I personally like vegetable and herb gardening.  It is so rewarding to grow what you eat and eat what you grow. Gardening gives me a [...]

Our Vegetable Garden

No food in the world tastes better than the food you grow in your own garden. We have planted a vegetable garden every year, for as many years I can remember.  I love having produce, fresh from the garden, to cook with.  Plus, I enjoy having canned, frozen, or dried fruits and vegetables that came from our [...]

Beekeeping Overview

Beekeeping Overview I’ve been keeping bees since 1998. It has been real learning experience. There is so much to learn about bees.  They are such fascinating creatures. Over the years we have collected lots of equipment; bee suits/veils, gloves, smoker, brush, frame lifter, feeders, boxes, frames, spinner, bottling tank, capping scraper/box, hot electric knife, and more. My husband has [...]

Our Herb Garden

I love to cook, and having fresh herbs available to me makes cooking so much more fun.  We  transplanted/planted our herb garden early in the Spring.  I can’t believe how well it has done in its new location. Here is what we planted: Sweet Basil Chamomile Chives Flat Garlic Chives Dill Lavender Lemon Balm Marjoram [...]

How to Plant a Fruit Tree

Location/ Time of Year: Check with your local Nursery or Garden Center for the best location to plant your specific kind of fruit tree (i.e. full sun, partial shade, well drained soil, sandy soil, etc.).  Plan this carefully your tree will be there a long time.  The best time of the year to plant or [...]

Homesteading…Continued

April 6, We ordered the rest of the fruit trees,  I hope they don’t all come in at once. April 11, we dug the herbs, and put them in pots to transplant in to new herb garden.  We have oregano, sage, lavender, chives, flat garlic chives, tarragon, and lemon balm.  These are all perennial herbs [...]

Homesteading…The Beginning

In the past, we have always had a garden.  We’ve been canning, freezing, and drying a lot of our own produce and fruit to use throughout the year.  I bake breads and other recipes to put in the freezer to eat during the winter, grow herbs, have been keeping bees for about 13 years now.  [...]