One tree variety already blooming in our yard, are the many Magnolia trees that have been arriving over the course of the last couple weeks.

Finally. The seeds & baby plants are in. The weather is warming up...

It's not all baby goats, sunshine, and flowers. While most of this homestead life is beautiful, it is also work.

Why do we bother? All this extra work and time spent making, baking, prepping, tending, feeding and watering. It seems like a lot - and some

Using whatever variety of dried herbs you like, place in a mortar with pestle and add course salt and peppercorns.

No country french farm scene would be complete without the scent of lavender floating on the breeze.  While we are definitely not in Paris,

We have more cucumbers than we know what to do with.  Went a little overboard this planting season... oops.  I have been drinking cucumber w

It has been just about six months of not having to buy eggs from the grocery store.  While that isn't an incredible savings (yet), it is

I did not plan on becoming a gardener.  In fact, I truly believed I had a "gang-green thumb".  I could not grow something edible.

Freshly picked Maine blueberries. Summer doesn't get much sweeter than that. This past weekend, we stumbled across a whole hedgefull of...