The Canning Marathon

Well, similarly to a couple of weeks ago, I spent most of my time this week in the kitchen processing our summer harvest from the garden before we get freezing temps here in the mountains.

Farm Journal FridayMikinzie TaylorSeptember 4, 2020canning, homestead, skills, farmstead, family, food storage, food preservation, vegetables, market garden, farm lifeComment

Building a "Cooler" Future

You’d think with the amount of carpentry going on around the farmstead this week that Jack and I are full-time contractors. We have been spending the past several days, nearly from sun-up to dinner time, working on building new infrastructure for the farm.

Using Pigs to Expand the Garden

When we first got our pigs this spring, Jack and I knew that we wanted to get them out on pasture so they could enjoy the outdoors, plentiful grass, and have lots of room to run around and play.