Our First Beef Harvest
Time really flies when you're working your tail off (ha). The months came and went, and suddenly our long awaited butcher date had...
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- Aug 16
- 3 min
Wild Maine Blueberry Pie
My blueberry pie & sourdough crust recipe! Goes great after a Dirigo Ranch beef roast for dinner!
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- Apr 12, 2021
- 2 min
Garden of Eatin'
Part of my homestead dream for the ranch, included a good sized portager ("kitchen") garden.
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- Aug 28, 2019
- 3 min
Garden Series: Preservation - Update 3
Garden season is coming to a close (cue the sad violins)… One of the things I love most about summer, is the fewer groceries I buy from the
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- Aug 23, 2019
- 3 min
Garden Series: Oh My Gourd! - Update 2
Squash, pumpkins, & gourds, oh my! This year we decided to try our hand at a pumpkin patch.
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- Aug 14, 2019
- 2 min
Tea Time
One afternoon, watering my many lavender plants, it occurred to me that I was more than fully capable of recreating it at a fraction of the
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- Mar 26, 2019
- 3 min
Maine Maple Saturday
While our operation is not currently big enough to warrant visitors, this year we did invest in a larger homemade sap evaporator for the who
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- Mar 18, 2019
- 2 min
DIY Spray Cleaner
Two-for-one deals are my favorite, especially when it means one less thing I have to buy from a store.
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- Mar 18, 2019
- 2 min
Country Candles
Using the rendered lard that we had from butchering our pork hogs this year, I decided to make my own candles.
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- Mar 9, 2019
- 2 min
Lard Have Mercy
With the return of pork from our homestead pigs, we were also given quite a few bags of pig fat. Now, what does one do with bag fulls of fat
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- Feb 20, 2019
- 3 min
We're a Couple of Saps...
Winter feels a lot longer when you become a gardener and keeper of livestock. The sunshine months are when everything glitters...
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- Jan 29, 2019
- 4 min
Eating at the Ground Level
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
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- Jan 15, 2019
- 3 min
S.W.A.S. - We're Talkin' Butter
Start With A Stick (SWAS) - that's the age-old Harper family motto on the use of butter.
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- Dec 14, 2018
- 4 min
From Scratch, With Love
I am proud to say that we have accomplished much of what we set out to do on the Homestead this year. We are raising our feathered and furr
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- Dec 7, 2018
- 1 min
Putting Our Eggs in a Basket...
We are very proud to have our eggs featured in their dishes, and to be considered part of their collection of quality local farms.
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- Dec 6, 2018
- 2 min
Tis The Season(ing)...
Using whatever variety of dried herbs you like, place in a mortar with pestle and add course salt and peppercorns.
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- Nov 23, 2018
- 3 min
Bless This Mess
In preparation for the big day, I can be a little intense... The Homestead Husband knows to stay faaar out of this Big Momma's way, when
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- Nov 19, 2018
- 2 min
Homemade Cranberry Sauce
It's the turkey day staple - cranberry sauce. Although the jelly-like tin can variety has the spotlight usually, I tried my hand at maki
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