Well, hasn't this week just been a peach?! While our Hawaiian friends are peeling themselves off the ceiling, celebrities are realizing that the world is really real, and apparently the flu has taken over

Today, Reuters and several other news outlets are reporting of gang hunting of cows in Venezula. THE PEOPLE ARE STARVING. So they group up and descend on someone's unsuspecting cattle and kill them right

Giants that stand silent at the gate, Soldiers against the elements, they wait.. Standing at their station with thankless solitude. For a hundred years or more they've been on watch, As humans and animals

I had a long, quiet trip to a commercial cactus and succulent grower recently. Succulents are one of my favorite things in life! I can't explain it, but sometimes they are so beautiful I tear up. Having

A lot of people comment that my children have such good manners. We are always humbled by this! It takes work, but I teach them what I call "Cowboy Manners". You kind of get an idea of what cowboy

Once you have made the decision to provide for yourself off your land, you should also commit to starting a journal or at least have a calendar where you write down what you've done each day. Using your

THE 24 C' s and the 4 B's of Packing Emergency Bags (Bug Out/SHTF) Many years ago, I was a young mother with 5 children and wife to a Deputy/Crime Scene Analyst. I knew that if there was an emergency like

Come on and sit a spell! Sometimes we get too busy, especially during the holidays, to get to sit down and read. I am guilty of this myself this past week or two. So I've put together a list of my recent

Let me start by saying, I support people's food choices. Especially for health reasons. My hope for mankind in general is that everyone has access to affordable, clean, whole foods and pure water. That

I'm so excited to start the Spring 2018 gardening today! A Spring 2017 Harvest Morning Too soon? Not hardly! After examining the awful state of my garden post Hurricane Irma, I knew that the sooner I started

Ever see a melon growing in a dry retention pond, or out in a field and rush over, thinking it's a honeydew? Happened to me when I was 15. My brother and I were 4-wheeling in a swampy area looking for

All you friends that live north of the Mason-Dixon (and some south of it), are probably going to think our piddly little freeze is no big deal. It got to 29* early Monday, and was 31* the night before.

Sometimes you just need alittle bit of nature and some good company... I took a quick video of my chatty chickens walking with me. I tried to talk them into going down to the duck pond, but they are too

These days, I find myself very grateful for some oppurtunities that have presented themselves. One of them being a Monday Market where I have been selling baked goods! I always thought my family members

No filter, just a golden yellow sunset acouple of nights before Hurricane Irma actually made landfall in Florida. The rainbands and clouds made it to central Florida days before the eye of the storm, leaving

Ok, for me it's always baking season since I bake from the farm for income. However, there's just nothing like fresh Banana Nut bread made from scratch with my heritage recipes (granny was from the mountains

Im on weak cell service here, but if y'all could rush on over to this reddit post and talk about steemit, it would be a great oppurtunity! The discussion is about how if corporations are using our private

There have been so many new ones joining, I thought I would take a moment to get re-aquainted. My name is Andi and I'm a homesteader and home school mom from Florida. We aren't off-grid (yet) thanks to

Things in our little area are slowly coming back to normal level. Schools are open tomorrow, everyone's power is supposed to be back on by midnight tonight (Sunday 9-17), and the stores and gas stations

Just a quick jot-down of some things I realized that would make chaotic times better, and also some things I saw other people doing that were no-no's: *My hair is too long. Us prairie girls like our long