by Lisa Matthews | Jan 2, 2021 | advice, balance, blessing, blessings, butchering, chicks, DIY, education, family, garden, garlic, growing food, homesteading, lifestyle, make-it-Monday, meat source |
Our ancestors, some of which were the original pioneers who pushed westward into unknown lands, recognized the benefit of community and working together. Even though the original pioneers were self sufficient and independent, they understood that together more could...
by Lisa Matthews | Apr 11, 2017 | butchering, DIY, family, homesteading, lifestyle, meat source, pig, preservation, seasoning |
The learning, doing and teaching that has gone on at our homestead over the last two years has begun to affect our extended family as well as us. This past weekend my brothers, their wives, my mother, my son and a friend all got together and butchered a sow and...
by Lisa Matthews | Mar 21, 2016 | advice, chicks, DIY, hatching, incubation, incubator, meat source, quail, Uncategorized |
Our venture into raising quail has expanded more this week after hatching our first Brown and Golden Jumbo Coturnix quail. These little buggers are absolutely amazing! Papa has admonished me more than once for just sitting and staring at these little...
