HOMEGROWN Life: Thank You, Women of Farm Country
I sit here in the wake of Thanksgiving, my favorite on the all-too-sparse menu of U.S. holidays, and I really feel the need to express my gratitude. Sure, I could talk about the relative prosperity...
View ArticleHOMEGROWN Life: The Family That Crafts Together Laughs Together
If you’re anything like me, this time of the year has crept up on you like frost in a field: slow and inevitable yet somehow invisible and surprising. On my homestead, I’ve spent days making pounds...
View ArticleICYMI: The Top HOMEGROWN Posts of 2014 (AKA Inspiration for 2015!)
Don’t worry. We understand if you didn’t spend every waking minute of 2014 hunched over the computer, drumming your fingers and waiting for the next HOMEGROWN 101 to post. You’re busy! You’ve got...
View ArticleHOMEGROWN Life: Deciding Which Vegetable Varieties to Grow
Another year has come to an end. The seed catalogs are rolling in, and as I sit here drooling over them, I keep coming across new, exciting vegetable varieties that I just have to try. There’s a part...
View ArticleHOMEGROWN Life: Planning a Baby Food Garden
Much like the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot, “extra” time and space don’t seem to exist. Even so, I apparently decided to fill both of those “extras” with a new baby! That’s right, we’ll be saying...
View ArticleHOMEGROWN Life: How About Cream of Roasted Fennel Soup?
This is my first year growing Florence fennel, the bulbing kind. Fennel grows wild around here, so I figured it would do well in our yard. Boy, has it! This is definitely something we’ll continue to...
View ArticleHOMEGROWN Life: Oh, Baby, Baby! Pregnant Mama Michelle Shares Her Secrets for...
Like me, I’m sure lots of HOMEGROWN readers aren’t crazy about being stagnant. For us, this equates to being unproductive. It goes against so many things we believe in! I don’t do well with forced...
View ArticleHOMEGROWN Life: Buyer Beware! Don’t Plant Those Seedlings Just Yet
This morning I saw tomato and pepper plants for sale. I also saw frost on the ground at my house. What do peppers and tomatoes hate? You guessed it. Frost. So why in the world would a nursery be...
View ArticleHOMEGROWN Life: How to Cook the Best Thanksgiving Turkey You’ll Ever Eat
It’s November, and we all know what that means: The holidays will be here any day now! Last year we followed the Thanksgiving turkey recipe below with our own homegrown bird, and we’ll do it again...
View ArticleHOMEGROWN Life: What the Fodder?! The Latest in Cheap and Easy Livestock Feed
Have you seen the latest big craze in animal feed? Livestock fodder from grain seed takes only about a week to grow and increases your feed by up to six times in weight. (So far, I’ve seen five but I...
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