Wow! It has been crazy around here. In between rain storms I have managed to get some stuff done. Last week I picked up 1000 mealworms and a plastic bin and got the "factory" started. We use the mealworms to feed our bearded dragon, Chevy, and the songbirds.
I also got Chevy's salad mix planted in containers. So excited for some fresh lettuce for all of us! It has been too wet to plant in the garden. Everyday I check, but it is just a sticky mess! Yesterday I went to my parents to thin the Raspberry patch. The patch is older than me and I have great memories of picking and eating the berries growing up. I brought home several plants, enough to start my own patch and share some with the neighbor for her patch. I am not expecting much in the next couple of years, but hopefully 5 years from now I won't need to make the trip to my parents to pick theirs anymore!
Tomorrow we are off to stay at a local hotel and expecting more rain. Boo Hoo! When will I get my other seeds in? We'll see! Here is to a dry next week!
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Saturday, April 21, 2012
What is Homesteading?
Homesteading is is a lifestyle of simple self-sufficiency. To me it means returning back to times when people grew the food they eat and took pride in being a homemaker.
A lot of things are considered Homesteading. Cultural Responsibility, Environmental Stewardship, Growing the Local economy, Gardening, Natural Home and Personal care Items, Frugality, and the list continues.
I am going to set specific goals to the skills I hope to gain. More to that in another post. I hope that by blogging, even if no one reads it, I will have some accountability.
A lot of things are considered Homesteading. Cultural Responsibility, Environmental Stewardship, Growing the Local economy, Gardening, Natural Home and Personal care Items, Frugality, and the list continues.
I am going to set specific goals to the skills I hope to gain. More to that in another post. I hope that by blogging, even if no one reads it, I will have some accountability.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Why?
Why? Why do I want this? What is it? Why?
I have been looking into being more frugal, a better steward of the place we call home, and just a healthy example to my kiddos. I have thumbs, green? We'll see! I am gonna start slow. I have a dear partner in crime ( My BFF and neighbor) and hopefully we will grow as wives and mothers as well as grow some food and our savings!
A little about me. I am a 32 year old Wife and Mother. I have a son who is 7 and a daughter who is 2. We live in a suburban development in a rural city. I worked outside the home until October 2011. I have been job hunting, but I am truly enjoying my time at home and think that this may become my new career.
I remember fondly, my Grandma Lorraine, she was a home economist, housewife, stay at home mom, or whatever the term is now a days. I always wanted to be like her. Grow my own food, can, sew, have a clean house, be available when my family needs me. She seemed to have everything under control. I know now how much work it really is! But I love it! I don't wake up wishing I didn't have to go to work! I am my own boss!
My goal for the next week is to research more about what it means to be an urban, or in my case suburban, homesteader. I hope to have a new thing to research each week and decide if it works for my family, develop a plan on how to implement it into my life and report back on what I learn in my trials and errors.
Wish me luck!
I have been looking into being more frugal, a better steward of the place we call home, and just a healthy example to my kiddos. I have thumbs, green? We'll see! I am gonna start slow. I have a dear partner in crime ( My BFF and neighbor) and hopefully we will grow as wives and mothers as well as grow some food and our savings!
A little about me. I am a 32 year old Wife and Mother. I have a son who is 7 and a daughter who is 2. We live in a suburban development in a rural city. I worked outside the home until October 2011. I have been job hunting, but I am truly enjoying my time at home and think that this may become my new career.
I remember fondly, my Grandma Lorraine, she was a home economist, housewife, stay at home mom, or whatever the term is now a days. I always wanted to be like her. Grow my own food, can, sew, have a clean house, be available when my family needs me. She seemed to have everything under control. I know now how much work it really is! But I love it! I don't wake up wishing I didn't have to go to work! I am my own boss!
My goal for the next week is to research more about what it means to be an urban, or in my case suburban, homesteader. I hope to have a new thing to research each week and decide if it works for my family, develop a plan on how to implement it into my life and report back on what I learn in my trials and errors.
Wish me luck!
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