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25 Essential Homesteading Skills You Should Learn

Posted on January 13, 2019January 13, 2019by Jessie
25 Essential Homesteading Skills to Learn

Are you wanting to become a little more self sufficient this year? Maybe your long term goals include moving out of the city and buying a little land in the country. Or maybe they simply involve relying less on convenience and more on self sufficiency and sustainability. If so, here’s 25 essential homesteading skills you […]

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5 Tips for Simplifying the Holidays

Posted on December 21, 2018December 23, 2018by Jessie
5 Tips for Simplifying the Holidays

The Holidays are supposed to be about coming together as family and celebrating the spirit of the season.  Why is it then that the vast majority of Americans are more stressed, lonely and worn out than at any other time of year?  Could it be because we focus too much on pleasing everyone and keeping […]

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25 Food Ideas for a Fishing Trip

Posted on June 8, 2018by Jessie
25 Food Ideas For Your Next Fishing Trip - This Country Home

I love food.  In fact my love for food borders on the slightly obsessive.  My family will never have to worry about starving to death.  This is especially true for any trips we take or places we go.  Pack a lunch they say.  Heck why pack a measly little lunch when you can pack a […]

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5 Lessons I’ve Learned from Gardening With a Toddler

Posted on May 24, 2018May 25, 2018by Jessie
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When Dan and I first started talking about gardening with Little Miss, we talked about all the things we were going to teach her.  We were going to show her where her food comes from.  We were gonna instill a love of nature and plants.  Dan and I would teach her the value of hard […]

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Moving an Old Repurposed Trailer When You’re Flat Broke

Posted on April 27, 2018April 27, 2018by Jessie
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This past weekend we moved our new storage shed to our property. It was originally an old cargo trailer that was repurposed into a shed. It had been sitting vacant on a relatives place and needed to be cleared off the property. We knew it was going to take a little work, but since we […]

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10 Tips For Planning Your First Garden

Posted on April 6, 2018April 7, 2018by Jessie
10 Tips for Planning Your First Garden - This Country Home

We’re moving our garden. . . again. Since we purchased our home, this will be the 3rd time we’ve moved it. It’s not like we enjoy moving the darn thing around, it’s just that someone has poor planning skills. We probably should have moved it last fall. You know, when normal people move their garden. […]

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7 Spring Chores on the Homestead

Posted on March 9, 2018March 8, 2018by Jessie
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It’s been an odd year. The winter weather that we were supposed to get in January and February never came. Now it’s March, and I’ve yet to see a storm that leaves any decent amount a precipitation. We welcomed in March with a HUGE windstorm (seriously – I think all the beautiful topsoil in my […]

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15 Things to Keep on Hand During Cold Season

Posted on February 23, 2018February 26, 2018by Jessie
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This post was supposed to be about chickens.  But it’s not.  This week my family is sick; from runny noses to sore throats and nose scrapes, my family has a few issues (well more so than usual!).  So I decided to share my top 15 things to keep on hand during cold season.  It all […]

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5 Simple Ways to Show Your Love

Posted on February 2, 2018April 7, 2018by Jessie

Valentine’s Day is coming, which means the pressure to show our love for our significant other is on.  The older I get though, the more I question why do we wait for one day out of the year to show our significant other we love them?  Don’t get me wrong, I love the flowers Dan gets me […]

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6 Easy Chores for Toddlers

Posted on January 26, 2018February 20, 2018by Jessie
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Chores. Seems like these days it’s kind of a controversial word. Some parents are totally against it, saying that their children can’t just be children if they’re busy doing chores all the time.  I gotta say I disagree.  After all, as parents – no pressure here –  but, we are responsible for shaping the next […]

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