This week had its highs and its lows.    The starter went out on the 1782 super garden tractor and then the battery gave up.  And I blew a tire on the 1450 garden tractor trying to push

I never had a hoop house or green house. Not sure what I want to use it for. Well, I know what to use it for...gardening of course. But what do I plant? ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

The phrase Happy Wife Happy Life is sooo true in so many ways. And the author of that phrase is wise!! If I can keep mama happy, then the home is happy. That means I am happy! Woo Hoo! Ok so Marian wanted

Social media. It helps to share knowledge, foster and grow communities and create dialog. The Backstory After a few weeks attending our new church, we meet our friend Lydia. Lydia and I share a similar

One of the biggest chores that you will have on the homestead is making sure your animals have water. Water is life and so important to an off grid homestead that is not hooked up to municipal services.

It is really cold out, I had nothing to do this morning.   Soooo why not make some coffee to start the morning out on the right foot! Have a great day everyone and thank you for stopping by. As always,

Learning from others I plan on stepping out in 2018 on the right foot! I want to start out our farm using the knowledge and insight I have gained from the farming/gardening/homesteading community found

Harvest Tonight for Tomorrows Garden Delight For years my wife and I would harvest the seeds from the plants we grew in our raised beds.  It consisted primarily of tomatoes, a variety of cucumbers,

Sometimes asking questions will surprise you. What is on your property is good information to have. But do you know what is underneath your property? For some time I have wanted to stop by City Hall and

I am doing this post to help out a community that is here on Steemit. It is the veterans community, @rakkasan84 started this as a way to support veterans by upvoting veterans posts on Steemit and helping

Its been so long since I was last on Steemit I almost forgot my password!! It has been over two months since I last posted on Steemit!  Can someone please tell me where the last two months of 2017

Coffee and the daily grind Zac from @mericanhomestead showed us the other day how he makes his coffee off grid. I am truly greatful that the good Lord has given us coffee and a multitude of ways that we

NOTHING IS GUARANTEED, BUT YOU HAVE POTENTIAL The purpose of this post is simple. It's a pep talk. Maybe it's for you, maybe it's for me. Anyway, I just wanted to help you "get your head right"

WHATS IN YOUR WALLET? OR YOUR POCKET, PURSE OR BRIEFCASE? Yesterday @stnwllstrtgc created an interesting post about EDC; your everyday carry items or pocket dump. His post can be found here: I found it

We have been living off grid for over ten years and we have yet to get ahead on our fire wood for the winter.  Some people have two years stored up, but for us, we find that we must go out each winter

Good evening Steemians. So my wife and I were out walking around the farm and while we were in the back we saw this buck we named Max and he took off and we watched him cruise the neighbors land. We continued

Good evening Steemians. If any of you have been following along with my previous posts/vlogs then you know a little bit about the struggle I face with hunting on my farm. If you have not seen them, go

This is one of the biggest times of the year for the homestead. This is when we put up most of our meat for the year to use in meals later on. Meat is one of the most expensive items on your shopping list

As you probably figured out long before this post, Steemit posts use markdown for formatting rather than traditional HTML. Markdown was developed by John Gruber at Daring Fireball, a very popular Apple

FOR BEING 242, WE STILL LOOK DAMN GOOD! A toast to all my Jarhead, Devil Dog, Shock Troop, Soldier of the Seas brothers and sisters of Uncle Sam's Misguided Children, Happy Birthday! November 10, 2017