Small Homestead

It is that time of year when the pick your own strawberries are starting to ripen.  I don’t do many pick your own fruits or vegetables anymore because I have found that you can buy them at the Farmer’s market for about the same price but when friends called yesterday and said they were going [...]

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I live in an area where almost everyone  learned to plant from their parents and grandparents.  You plant corn when the whippoorwil starts calling.  You plant above ground vegetables in the light of the moon and root crops in the dark of the moon.   This is the way things have been done for generations.
Being new [...]

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I have decided to document the kinds of vegetables that I plant and their progress through the year.  I have been experimenting with different types of the same vegetables and really need to keep track of how they do.  Last week we planted 30 cabbage slips.  I believe they were Market Pride.
Today I put down [...]

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Spring is here!  Although last week, I thought we had jumped right into summer with temperatures in the mid 90s.  This week we are back to spring with temperatures in the 60s and 70s and nights in the 40s.
The garden has been plowed and disced and then smoothed with the harrow.  You might notice that [...]

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