The White Family Homesteaders

     Growing season has begun and my dining room corner has become our temporary greenhouse.  Trying to start seeds in the rain with the kiddos running around can be somewhat challenging and not very productive.  At times I found myself getting frustrated when every 2 minutes or so I hear "mom watch this, mom watch this", but then I would turn around and see lil man sliding down a muddy hillside with an enormous smile and it made me realize I have to go with the flow.  Sometimes we are constantly trying to check things off our chore list that we forget we need to be flexible and goof off.  On my own I was able to get half a tray of seeds started so I waited for our weekend with Papa to get the rest done. Of course before I could get started I had to clean up chicken poop, thanks ladies.      Planting goes so much faster when there's two people.      Since we don't have a long growing season I try to get ...

     I was going to do a new year new start post but what do you know it's almost February now.  The days have been flying by and before we know it our weekend is over and it's back to the grind and another week has passed.  Since we didn't get a chance to process the log load last year we've picked up doing that again.  We need to keep our little ones warm so we have to process at least half a cord a week.  Plus now that spring is getting closer, I'm counting down the days until I get to begin my seedlings.       Our hopes for this year is that we get truck loads of vegetables.  Our goal is to provide fresh veggies to our family and friends.  Not everyone has the opportunity to grow their own veggies so we look forward to sharing.  We've been putting in a lot of sweat and time the last few years in the garden and haven't got out of it what we want.  Our plan of attack for this year is a few changes. First o...

So as you can see we've relocated where we blog.  We want to keep everyone updated on what we are doing on the homestead and the last blog site was making it too difficult. Our garden has been keeping us busy the last couple of weeks. We direct sowed our peas, onions, beets, and leafy greens into their appointed rows for this season.  I'm super duper excited to see some of them sprouting from the ground. We transplanted our tomatoes into the garden but unfortunately either the deer or the darn squirrels got their grubby little paws on them.  We are hoping that they grow back soon.  My handy hubby put together a motion activated scarecrow to hopefully keep those critters out of the garden.  Here's a link to our you tube video so you can see it in action  here. Yesterday we had quite a productive day on the homestead.  We transplanted 14 cucumber, 8 zucchini, a few pumpkin and watermelon plants.  To help them get established before any wildlife ...