Homesteading and the continuing dream!

We have welcomed egg layers to the homestead back in 2018. They were our first step into this life of providing something for ourselves. Once we fell in love with them and having our own eggs at hand the dream started to grow a little bigger.

In the spring of 2019, we added 6 more egg layers & one super sweet baby girl, Emersyn. Throughout that summer again, our garden was producing a lot. (Thank you to the neighbors’ cows for providing that manure for us.) We decided to do a community market.

The main thought behind this was to add any extra food that we were growing, but wouldn’t use before it went bad and would bring it to the stand. Anyone in the community was welcomed to it. The growing season was cut short due to a hail storm and we weren’t able to produce as much. We got enough to feed us, but nothing to add to the Community Market.

In the fall of 2019, we had our neighbor come over a till up a spot for a BIG garden. I have plans for this garden. Some raised beds, nice mulch covered walk ways, fence and gate. I am hoping to start implementing these ideas into the garden here in a couple of weeks. The BIG garden will have: potatoes, corn, carrots, zucchini, onions, squash, pumpkins. And whatever else my husband might want to add. The SMALL garden will have my tomatoes, green peppers, green beans and peas.

Working hard in the garden through the summer gives such an accomplished feeling.

So this sums up where we are at on our homesteading journey today, I can’t wait to see where we are at in a few weeks!!