Helping You Turn Your Homeschool Challenges into Your Homeschool Charms
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, like the ones I used to know… One Christmas, we got snow in spades, or shall I say, in shovels. So. Much. Snow. Four feet almost to its height. Running down our 200-foot driveway was a two-foot-wide space shoveled for a walkway. We parked at the top and walked down…
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A fictional narrative from my real extended Mennonite family Christmas that influenced my homeschool Christmas traditions.
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Raising meat birds is a whole different experience than raising laying hens. From my history of purchasing chicken on styrofoam trays at suburban grocery stores to raising and processing meat birds, I share with you my experience.
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Want to know if you’re cut out as a homesteader? These hints will help you determine if homesteading is for you: You roam the countryside gathering ideas for your ideal plot of land. You’ve got a raw plot of land and you can see what it’ll be…someday. You read and research chickens. You’ve got chickens,…
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Not far from where I live, there was a large fruit orchard that existed along the same river I live beside. There are a lot of trees between there and here: douglas fir, spruce, hemlock, birch, pine, and cedar. I have a three-acre homestead on the edge of the Kootenay River that houses more coniferous…
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Have you dabbled in breadmaking? Seems like I’ve seen a few more sourdough loaves in my Instagram feed these last couple months. A few years ago, I decided if I wanted to practice any homesteady skill, it was bread making. But the things that look the easiest, usually are the most difficult. (Pie crust making…
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