Tag: homesteading

  • Go With the Flow: Embracing Nature to guide your daily living

    Sometimes you just need the warmth and sunshine of an early spring day to remind you to just go with the flow. Tuesday of this week the weather here, in Southwest Virginia, was a gorgeous 74°. I couldn’t have asked for better, and with a growing list of outdoor projects, I knew I needed to…

  • Getting to the root of my fear: the garden experiment

    I often take forever to commit to something new. Even if it’s something I’m somewhat familiar with, I often have trouble starting something, and over time I’ve figured out that this is due to my perfectionism. I am scared of failing. Last year, I talked a lot about starting a garden, but never followed through.…

  • 5 Tips for Using Excess Eggs on the homestead

    Now that the groundhog has spoken, and weather is getting slightly warmer (at least around here!) and days are getting a little longer, our girls have picked back up production. I had wanted chickens for eggs for a while, but it didn’t make sense until we moved to this property a few years ago. Then,…

  • Season of Waiting

    Until recently, I thought of the seasons as what we’re taught in school: spring, summer, fall and winter. But life has more seasons than just that. There are seasons of grief, joy, decline, growth, work, rest, feast, and famine just to name a few. With each season, it’s important, though often difficult, to recognize that…

  • You never know until you try…

    Isn’t it funny how getting started seems to be the hardest part of most tasks? It could be something mundane like household chores, or something exciting you’ve never tried before. But what holds us back? Fear. With chores, at least for me, I often fear I won’t have time to complete a given task or…