Graham: Modern-day Homesteader
We have provided ourselves during more than four decades with the basic necessaries of life in exchange for a sufficient amount of planning, persistence and hard work. … In our forty-odd years of homesteading...
Modern-day homesteading at Little Owl Gully Blog
Modern-day homesteaders
Homesteaders; small holders; lifestylers (on a lifestyle block); alternative lifestylers; self-sufficient; small farmers; hobby farmers; hippies; good lifers (living the good life). We can’t help ourselves: people like to label people. We’re living the...
Fence posts in spades
Man is a Tool-using Animal; weak in himself, and of small stature … Feeblest of bipeds! Three quintals [300 kg] are a crushing load to him; the steer of the meadow tosses him aloft,...
Mulch Madness
Late March – early April and the autumn harvest had left large swathes of vegetable garden denuded of crops and a large expanse of soil exposed to the elements. Weed seeds germinated en masse...
Taking stock
It’s that time of year: You take stock of the livestock. Our three Hyline Brown hens are three months into their third year of laying and should keep us in eggs for another eighteen...
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