I only have a couple pages to share with you from my Homestead Notebook. I’m hoping to get back into doing some garden/nature studies in it along with notes from planting and harvesting. One veggie I’m trying to learn more about growing is onions. I’ve successfully grown them, but they are very small, so I’m…
I hope to make a semi-regular habit of posting what’s going on around here. These posts will be things that aren’t really worth a full post themselves, but things that I think you might find interesting or helpful or fun. Seed Snail starting Have you heard of this? A couple of YouTubers I follow have…
It’s that time of year again here in the Pacific NW! Time to start planning the garden and starting some seeds (Why have starts from the stores gotten SO expensive?!) I have a mix of seeds, some from my favorite Etsy seller Seed Geeks, some from the store, some home saved seeds, some from Urban…
Bullet Journal plans for 2023 Next year will be my 10th year of bullet journaling! A decade of my life is now recorded in Bullet Journals. So, I was thinking that’s a pretty big milestone, and based on all the questions and comments I’ve gotten over the years, maybe 2023 will be a good time…
Bullet Journal I set up my October journal pages (late, but at least I did it!), and kept them pretty simple. The first page is going to be filled in with doodles of memories, like framed pictures on a wall. I’ll write in a verse I’m trying to memorize on the bottom of the page….
Do you want the good news or the bad news first? Let’s just get the bad out of the way first: My garden STILL has aminopyralid herbicide in the compost. ARGH! Rather than dig the poison compost out, we built up by adding lots of rotted wood, good compost, and layers of other mulch last…
Here’s the update to the Homestead Notebook for June. I’m using it to track what I planted and how much I got from the plantings. This was such a long, cold, wet spring that it really messed up my crops. When it finally warmed up, almost every single cabbage went to seed. But I did…
Normally this time of year I have all the garden planted, but the weather has been cold and rainy with a few warm days here and there, so I’ve been planting and sowing seeds when I can. I feel a bit behind, but I think everything will pull through okay before the fall frost. The…
For the first time ever, I detail planned the garden. Usually I just start seeds I want, hope it’s enough, and then plant randomly (and sometimes have to move things around, and sometimes don’t have enough of something). This year, though it was a monumental task for me, I planned out every square foot of…
This month in the Homestead Notebook I was able to add a few recipes we like and the plans for the backyard micro homestead this year. Plus, there are also some details on our chickens and plans to put together some DIY hoop tunnels for our garden this spring. First, the Cowboy Candy (also known…