We have talked about getting involved with beekeeping ever since we got our place. It helps pollinate our garden as well as some new fruit trees. We found an apiary about an hour away so we ordered a box of bees. The pickup date on the bees was March 25th, but we had a cold […]
We have a new addition to the Maitri Homestead. Bonnie is a 3 month old Australian Shepherd. She is already doing great with the chickens and cats.
“There are currently 6.6 million people in the United States either in jail, on probation or on parole. Of those, more than two million are incarcerated. And of those two million — half of whom were added in the last ten years — more than sixty per cent are non-violent drug offenders. There has been
Read Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss for an eye opening book about the processed food industry.
“An Inuit from Greenland made famous in the Danish writer Peter Freuchen’s Book of the Eskimo. Freuchen tells how one day, after coming home hungry from an unsuccessful walrus-hunting expedition, he found one of the successful hunters dropping off several hundred pounds of meat. He thanked him profusely. The man objected indignantly: “Up in our
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My parents bought us a Shiitake sawdust spawn starter kit as a Christmas gift from Field and Forest Products. We had to wait a little bit before we could actually inoculate the logs because they recommend that daytime highs stay consistently above 45 degrees. We had planned to fence in the garden area and cut
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It is sometimes difficult to get all the washed clothes hung out to dry on the clothesline when the weather won’t cooperate. We have been running the wood stove for months now and it seemed like a no-brainer to use the heat of the wood stove to help dry clothes when mother nature wasn’t cooperating.
Eating live, fermented foods like sauerkraut have been proven to be beneficial to your health in many studies. The stuff you buy in the store is heat processed during canning and essentially dead. It is so easy to make your own sauerkraut that I couldn’t believe it when we learned how. So, we had to
We don’t have a large permanent greenhouse yet or enough space in our little cabin to get seedlings going early. We decided that making little temporary greenhouses (a.k.a poly tunnels) would be the next best thing. We built ours over existing raised beds, but any growing space could be covered with a poly tunnel. The
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