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.

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

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.

I have never been one to wish for rain, but after the Homestead Husband laid down the duck pond liner last night, I have been doing my rain

Freshly picked Maine blueberries. Summer doesn't get much sweeter than that. This past weekend, we stumbled across a whole hedgefull of them, right in our backyard! In life, you must keep your eyes wide open, because you can miss things right in front of you, if you aren't paying close enough attention. We have walked our property many, many, many times. We have scanned it, let the dogs run through it, free ranged it, raked it, and mowed it - but in the last year, not onc